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My knuckles turned bone-white gripping Jake's wrist as human tides swallowed us whole at the Summerfest gates. One moment we were laughing about the glitter on his cheeks, the next I was spinning alone in a vortex of neon crop tops and beer fumes. "Meet at Dragon Stage in 20!" his text blinked before my dying phone battery flatlined. Panic tasted metallic—like licking a battery—as 300,000 strangers blurred into a single suffocating organism. That's when my trembling thumb jabbed the festival com

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The campus stretched before me like a maze carved from red brick and southern humidity. Sweat glued my shirt to my back as I stood paralyzed beside a statue of some long-dead benefactor, my parents' rental car disappearing down Faculty Drive. Every building looked identical; every path seemed to fork toward deeper confusion. That's when my phone buzzed - not a text, but the WFU Orientation app flashing a pulsing blue dot exactly where I stood. Suddenly, the statue had a name: Wait Chapel. And su

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