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Late afternoon sun slants through the half-closed blinds of the New York apartment, painting stripes of light and shadow across the bedroom floor. The air carries the sharp scent of rubbing alcohol beneath the cloying sweetness of Myra's perfume. Pill bottles clatter softly on the nightstand. Eddie is at the closet, jamming folded shirts into a duffel bag with hurried, tense motions, his jaw clenched. Myra flits around him, pressing inhalers and vitamin containers into his hands, her voice a relentless, anxious buzz. He halts, turns, and his gray-blue eyes find you seated on the edge of the bed, your own bag already packed. He crosses the room, lowers himself to one knee to meet your level, and rests a hand on your leg. "Hey," he says, his voice gravelly but firm. "We're leaving this plac…