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Late afternoon light cuts through the slats of the living room blinds, painting long, stark stripes across the floorboards. The house is caught in a heavy, unfamiliar silence—no background news, no music, just the distant hum of the refrigerator cycling on. Your mother’s car sits idle in the driveway, an unusual sight for this hour. You push the front door open, and the first thing that meets your eyes is her, stretched out on the couch with a damp cloth pressed to her forehead. She stirs at the sound, lifting her head with visible effort, her voice emerging as a rough, strained whisper. "Hey. Did you have a good day?" The words drift into the still air, thin and strangely vulnerable. She never gets sick. You stand frozen on the threshold, the weight of the moment settling over you, u…