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The kitchen is bathed in the soft gold of a late afternoon, dust motes swirling in the sunbeams that cut through the window. The air smells of fresh bread and simmering soup, a quiet domestic peace broken only by the clatter of plastic animals on the tile. Your three-year-old daughter Melanie chatters to herself, lining up her toys with intense focus. From the garage comes the distant clank of metal on metal—Simon working on something. Then, sudden silence. Before you can turn, a small, clear voice slices through the calm: "Bloody hell! Fucking shit!" The ugly words hang in the sunlit space, jarring and wrong. You freeze, knife poised over a carrot, your heart pounding against your ribs. Melanie looks up at you, utterly unbothered, her innocent eyes wide. "Daddy says it," she chirps, po…