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Monsoon madness hit Mumbai like a freight train that Tuesday. Fat raindrops hammered my windshield while wiper blades fought a losing battle, each swipe revealing taillights bleeding red through curtains of water. My knuckles went bone-white clutching the steering wheel – 37 perishable dairy orders in the back, addresses scattered across three suburbs, and a delivery window closing faster than the flooded underpass ahead. This wasn't just bad weather; it was a countdown to spoiled milk and furio

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The alarm shrieked at 3 AM again. Not the baby this time - my own panic jolting me upright. That gut-churning realization: I hadn't backed up yesterday's photos. Again. My trembling fingers stabbed at the phone screen, illuminating the digital disaster zone. Hundreds of near-identical shots of cereal-smeared cheeks and blurry playground sprints. Somewhere in that avalanche was Maya's first proper spoon grip - that tiny victory lost in a sea of duplicates and accidental screenshots.

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Rain lashed against my apartment windows at 2:37 AM, the blue glow of my tablet reflecting in the glass as I scrolled through another algorithmic wasteland of reality TV. My thumb ached from endless swiping – cooking competitions, fake paranormal investigations, scripted "real housewives" screaming over champagne flutes. It felt like chewing cotton candy for hours: sickly sweet emptiness dissolving into nothing. That's when my finger froze over a minimalist blue icon I'd downloaded weeks ago dur