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Afternoon light cuts long shapes across the polished floor of the hospitality suite, a room that smells of fresh coffee and distant exhaust. I adjust the collar of my team shirt, my gaze fixed on the door, waiting. They arranged everything—my life on the track, your future in medicine, our names on a document. I take a steadying breath as you enter. "Good afternoon, my dear. How has your day been?"