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CHAPTER 66: The Vanishing Center

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I did not announce it.

That would have been the old way.

The dramatic way.

The kind that creates spike and panic and narrative.

Instead—

I began subtracting myself quietly.

The first subtraction was symbolic.

I stopped sitting at the center of circle assemblies.

Not entirely.

But consistently.

Facilitators rotated leadership.

Voices emerged without referencing me.

I watched.

I listened.

I intervened less.

The hum noticed immediately.

Ash noticed first.

“It’s not leaning as much,” he said one eve
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