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The relentless Manchester downpour drummed against my windowpane like a metronome counting solitary hours. I'd been staring at the same PDF for 47 minutes, cursor blinking in mockery of my concentration. That's when my thumb brushed against the crimson circle icon - almost accidentally - and suddenly I was falling into warmth.

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Rain lashed against the kitchen window as I stared at the disaster zone - three half-inflated balloons floated like jellyfish casualties, a melted ice sculpture leaked onto my grandmother's heirloom tablecloth, and the caterer's number vanished from my waterlogged notepad. My son's dinosaur-themed tenth birthday had become a Jurassic wreck in real-time. That's when my trembling fingers discovered the turquoise icon on my drowned phone's second home screen.

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