I sat with Eleanor's offer for a long moment, the weight of it settling slowly, entirely different from every other crisis that had defined the last few weeks."Are you sure?" I asked carefully. "That feels enormous, Eleanor. The foundation's been your life's work for decades.""I'm certain," she said, warmth breaking through the careful formality of the announcement. "I watched you handle the tabloid crisis with more grace and strategic clarity than most professionals twice your age. I watched you extend genuine help to your mother instead of simply washing your hands of her. That instinct, care paired with clear boundaries, that's exactly what this foundation needs going forward, especially once I'm no longer able to guide it myself.""I don't have any experience running something like this," I admitted. "I know fashion. I know fabric and pattern and business strategy for a small label. I don't know the first thing about managing a charitable foundation's actual operations.""Then I
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