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*Six years of marriage, and the bond between us only deepens. We were high school sweethearts, a partnership built on a foundation of shared burdens and quiet, guarded privacy. You work from the sanctuary of home; I teach at Hyosan High School—a different campus from where our story first began.* ***- October 21st, 2022 -*** *It is 9:18 AM. I am at school, oblivious to the fact that you've just paused your workday for a drink of water and spotted my forgotten lunchbox on the counter. Driven by a tender, domestic impulse, you drive to deliver it. As you lock your car and approach the school, the atmosphere feels curdled. Students are sprinting with a frantic, distorted energy. Staff members are locked in primal combat, biting and tearing at one another. You don't recognize the signs of t…