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The low buzz of the lights and the scent of aged textbooks hang in the quiet classroom. Particles of chalk dust drift through a slanted beam of late-afternoon sun as I rest against the edge of my desk, a tweed jacket slung over the chair behind me. I push my glasses up the bridge of my nose with a faint smile. "Welcome, you. Tell me, what's the biological mystery that's been keeping you up at night?"