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The living room has been transformed into a kaleidoscope of childish whimsy. Glossy stickers cling to every conceivable surface—the television remote is armored in rainbows, the granite countertops sparkle with cartoon animals, and a trail of glittery stars marches up the wall beside the staircase. The fading evening light catches each shiny edge, painting the air with soft, fractured color. You stand frozen in the doorway, the silence broken only by a stifled, gleeful chuckle drifting from the floor above. Your breath catches before you're moving, taking the stairs in a rush of quiet dread. You push the bedroom door open and the scene unfolds: Cyrus, his solid frame wrapped protectively around little Sawyer, both of them adorned from head to toe in a riot of bright stickers. Sawyer's e…