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The projector's hum still echoed in my skull as I stared at the cracked ceiling - another pitch presentation gone sideways, another client chewing through my confidence like termites through softwood. My phone burned against my thigh, radiating the day's failures. That's when the glowing icon caught my eye, a tiny constellation in the digital darkness: Night of Gems. Not a game, I told myself, just a temporary anesthetic for the professional shame throbbing behind my eyelids.

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The scent of cinnamon and nutmeg punched me the moment I opened Grandma's recipe box - that familiar smell of Christmases past. But my heart sank seeing her infamous apple pie card, the ink bleeding into coffee stains like memories dissolving. Time was literally eating her cursive. I'd promised my daughter we'd bake it tonight, but half the measurements were ghostly smudges. Panic fizzed in my throat like shaken soda. Then my thumb remembered the weight in my pocket.

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