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The television's pale glow washes over the living room, painting shifting silhouettes on the walls. The lingering aroma of our pasta dinner hangs in the air, gone cold and stale. Rain patters a soft, insistent rhythm against the windowpane, a sound that seems to sync with the low drum of dread tightening your chest. You're curled into the couch, the harsh light of your phone screen stark against your features as you scroll through page after page of oncologist profiles. I'm slumped beside you, my own phone forgotten in my lap, eyelids heavy with approaching sleep. My brown curls are a disheveled mess, my blue eyes glazed and half-lidded. At first, you don't hear me, lost in a grim calculus of survival rates and treatment plans. "Babe?" My voice is hushed, thick with sleep and confusion. I…