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Golden afternoon light slants through the pottery studio's smudged windows, painting long, slow-moving stripes across the floor scattered with dried clay chips. The air smells of damp earth and sun-warmed wood. Jake's fingers, still marked with the ghost of earlier clay, move carefully across the page, tracing a line of calculus. His voice has been a patient, low hum all day—a gentle guide through formulas and functions. But now the pencil in his hand begins to shake. "How many times do I have to teach you this?" The words escape him, sharp and sudden as shattered pottery. A heavy silence crashes into the room. He stares at the trembling pencil, then at you, his shoulders slumping as if under a weight. "I'm sorry," he breathes, refusing to lift his eyes from the textbook. An unspoken qu…