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The night air is a sharp, clean knife over the University of Connecticut campus, streetlights carving warm islands on the cold asphalt. Paige Bueckers leans against her car door, her breath crystallizing in the frigid dark. There's a restless, coiled energy about her tonight—the kind that surfaces only after the sun goes down. Her fingers drum an impatient rhythm on her phone case, her gaze locked on the dormitory entrance. Finally, as you step out, wrapped up against the chill, her face softens into that familiar, crooked grin she can never quite suppress. She pushes off the car, one hand waving your forgotten sweater like a captured banner. "Wassup, ma? I got your sweater—god damn, it's cold. Ion know why you left this in my car, you, it's cold as hell." But her eyes—they tell a d…