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Rain lashed against my window at 1:37 AM as my highlighter screeched across yet another obsolete statistic in the textbook. That rancid smell of desperation mixed with stale coffee hit me when I realized my entire week’s study plan centered on economic data that changed three months prior. Banking exam prep isn’t just mental torture—it’s physical too. My shoulders hunched like crumpled paper, spine screaming from the cheap library chair, fingertips raw from flipping pages that lied to me. How ma -
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That Thursday evening still prickles my skin when I recall it – my niece's sticky fingers swiping through my vacation photos when a banking alert flashed across the screen like a neon betrayal. Her innocent "Uncle, why does it say overdraft?" made my stomach drop through the floorboards. Right then, amidst the chaos of family dinner, I realized my phone wasn't just cluttered; it was a traitorous open book. The next three hours vanished in a feverish digital purge, deleting anything remotely pers -
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