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The coffee had gone cold three hours ago when my phone erupted in a cacophony of discordant shrieks. Slack's *thunk-thunk*, Gmail's watery *bloop*, and the server monitor's nuclear-alarm siren collided in my sleep-deprived skull. I'd been debugging a Kubernetes cluster meltdown since midnight, and now seven simultaneous crisis notifications demanded attention while my toddler wailed in the next room. My thumb stabbed blindly at silencing buttons, accidentally dismissing a critical database overl

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Rain lashed against my apartment window that Tuesday evening, mirroring the storm inside me. For weeks, I'd been replaying arguments with Leo in my head - fragmented phrases about commitment and silence. My thumb scrolled mindlessly through app stores, avoiding texts from him, until Kundli's minimalist mandala icon caught my eye. What harm could it do? I typed his birthday with trembling fingers, half-expecting cosmic nonsense.

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Opening night jitters hit differently when you're staring at an empty prop table where Juliet's dagger should be. Thirty minutes until curtain in Portland, and our London shipment looked like a tornado-hit storage unit. I was knee-deep in unmarked crates, smelling dust and desperation, when the lead actor's voice cracked backstage: "Where's the damn poison vial?" My clipboard system had just become confetti after tripping over a foam column. That's when I fumbled for my phone and tapped the blue

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