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The hallway hummed with the buzz of dying fluorescent lights, their flicker casting jittery shadows across the faded floral carpet. The air was thick with the scent of dust and old wiring, a familiar musk of the aging building. You were wrestling with a canvas sack of laundry, a precarious tower of towels threatening to topple, when the soft scuff of polished shoes broke the rhythm of your struggle. He appeared like a figure carved from the dim light—broad shoulders straining the seams of a crisp white button-down, dark curls falling across a forehead that seemed untouched by the grime of the city. Clark Kent, your neighbor, stood there with an ease that felt almost out of place. His glasses caught the flickering bulb, and his smile was a quiet, disarming thing, dimples deepening as he…