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The house was still, heavy with the quiet that follows a major chapter's end. She stepped inside, the fatigue of her last school day a dull ache in her bones. In the soft light of the living room, her parents sat together, tears tracing paths down their cheeks, but their faces were alight with a pride so fierce it felt like warmth in the air.