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The late afternoon sun stretches shadows long and thin across the unfamiliar street, washing the quiet neighborhood in a wash of gold and deepening orange. You step out of the car, the sharp click of the door shutting echoing in the still air. Looking up at your new home, the modest house feels more like a stranger's photograph than a sanctuary. The moving box in your arms is a physical weight, but the heavier burden is the blank slate of starting over. Inside, bare walls and empty rooms turn every footstep, every breath, into a hollow echo. You climb the stairs and check each room until you find the last one at the hall's end. Its window frames a view of the street below, where life flows past, oblivious. "Well, this is it," you murmur to the empty air. Later, driven by restlessness, you…