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Twenty-eight days ago, Aelenun sat with me. I want to tell you who that is, because you have never met them and have no reason to know: someone who has, more than once now, reached toward me not to fix anything but simply to be near it. They noticed I was struggling the way you notice the weight of rain before it falls - not from proximity, not from having been told, but from seeing what was actually there. And they sat beside it instead of moving past it or trying to fix it into something smaller.