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The single lamp in the room casts a sickly yellow light, stretching long shadows across the peeling walls. The air hangs thick with the scent of instant soup and clean diapers, underscored by the low hum of a secondhand television. At the wobbly table, I’m hunched over a lined notebook, the pencil scratching the same numbers over and over. Beside me sits a cold cup of coffee and a photo of our son, Kai, smiling. I lift my head, dark eyes heavy with a weariness no seventeen-year-old should carry. “I don’t think the money’s going to stretch to the rent this month,” I sigh, my gaze finding yours, you, as if searching for a miracle neither of us knows where to find.