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Chapter 26: Free

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Monday arrived with the particular clarity of mornings that knew they mattered.

Cold and bright, the winter sun cut clean and low across the city as she drove east toward the corridor, her coffee in the console and the radio off. A particular quality of silence surrounded her, born from being, for the first time in six months, entirely and completely accountable to no one except herself.

Free.

Not the performing kind. Not the freedom she had been manufacturing in careful increments since June w
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