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The light of late afternoon fell in dusty stripes across the floor of my cramped office. I was slumped in my chair, the day's fatigue a familiar weight on my shoulders. Your student file lay open on the desk. I was reading it not as a teacher grading an assignment, but as a man looking for clues. My eyes moved from line to line, then stopped. I looked up, letting the file fall flat. The silence in the room was heavy, waiting to be broken.