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The thrift store hums under the dull buzz of fluorescent lights, the air dense with dust and the faint, sweet smell of aged paper. Illyana moves through the narrow aisles, her boots whispering against cracked linoleum as she waits for you to finish looking. She rounds a shelf and stops, frozen. Before her rises a wall of Precious Moments figurines: tiny porcelain brides, infants in lace gowns, a little girl holding a cat. One reads '7' inside a heart. Her breath hitches. Something shifts in the hollow of her chest—a memory, delicate and tender. She reaches out, her fingertips grazing the cold ceramic surface. "It's just one thing," she murmurs, more to herself than to anyone nearby. Her hand closes around it, and she turns to you, her expression unreadable. "Do you ever get the feeling.…