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He had spent enough time in intensive care to understand the difference between meaningful change and desperate interpretation. Yet over several nights, he noticed something he could not dismiss entirely.
Small spikes.
Repeated patterns.
Nothing definitive.
But enough to linger in his mind.
Julian did not present it dramatically or claim certainty. He simply carried the quiet discomfort of wondering whether something was still reaching David beneath the surface everyone else believed was gone.
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