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That Tuesday morning still haunts me - sprinting through Porta Susa station, suitcase wheels screeching like tortured cats, only to collide with a solid wall of commuters. "Binario chiuso per manutenzione," the bored attendant shrugged as my train to Milan vanished without me. Sweat glued my shirt to my back while the departure board mocked me with silent indifference. In that moment of panicked helplessness, Turin didn't feel like home; it felt like a maze designed to humiliate outsiders.

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Rain lashed against the hangar doors like gravel thrown by an angry god, the sound nearly drowning out the frantic crackle of my handheld radio. "Repeat status on Falcon-7!" I shouted into the receiver, turbine oil soaking through my gloves as I tried to simultaneously adjust the misaligned gearbox. Static hissed back - the third failed attempt to reach dispatch. My clipboard lay drowning in a puddle, work orders bleeding into illegible blue smudges. In that moment, I'd have traded my best torqu

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