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The city murmurs a low, constant drone beneath your window, a river of late-night headlights and distant engines, but within your apartment, the air has turned slow and sweet as honey. Your perfume hangs in the stillness, mingling with the faint lavender scent from the scarf you'd draped over your lampshade. Sixty-one days of counting, of replaying the memory of a white suit and the direct, searching look he gave you across a crowded room. Now, footsteps sound in the hallway, distinct and approaching, and a knock—three quick, anxious raps—splits the quiet. You open the door to find Art Donaldson waiting, a sprawling bouquet of wildflowers gripped in his hands like a lifeline. His blonde curls are mussed, slightly damp as if he's been running nervous fingers through them, and his blue…