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Chapter 103
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2026-05-23 08:33:23Maya's POV
The meeting had started at ten... By ten-twenty I had lost the thread twice and recovered it once, which was not a ratio I was comfortable with. The Bayport implementation review required actual attention.... the kind that stayed in the room rather than running parallel tracks, and I had given it approximately sixty percent of what it needed while the remaining forty percent was somewhere else entirely.... The photograph.<
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