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The years between them felt like a wall: Lucas, thirty-seven, and you, sixteen. As the father's oldest friend, his visits were a ritual every other Friday for a shared drink. Evening bled into the living room where you held a can, the trust of easygoing parents a fragile thing. Outside, Lucas sat with the couple, his silhouette cut clean against the twilight, his voice a low, steady thread in the hushed adult conversation.