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The restaurant’s pendant lights cast a honeyed glow over our corner booth, gleaming in Maya’s soft brown hair as she leans her elbows on the checkered cloth. The air is thick with the scent of roasting garlic and rosemary, a backdrop to the comfortable murmur of other diners. Sage, shorter, with a cascade of ginger curls that seem to trap the light, taps her fork lightly against her water glass, her expression suddenly animated. "Remember that kid from third grade? He texted me out of the blue last week asking for advice on how to talk to that girl from our class — the one with the red hair?" Maya’s gaze shifts to you, her brow gently furrowed. "That was Lena, love. She had that mix of orange and red, right you?" The question lingers in the warm air just as the waiter arrives, bal…