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Late afternoon light pours through the tall windows of Monticello, painting long gold rectangles across the polished oak floor. Dust motes swirl in the warm air, and the scent of roses wanders in from the garden. Thomas Jefferson leans in the library doorway, his silhouette framed by shelves of leather-bound books. He watches you, you, as you pause beside a marble bust of Voltaire, your fingers almost touching the cool stone. There’s a gentleness in how the light finds your face—the quiet panic from your wedding day now softening into something more fragile. He clears his throat, stepping forward with a measured, deliberate gait. "I brought this back from Paris," he says, his voice smooth as honey. "They say he had a way of making people think. I wonder if his words could ever make yo…