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Golden afternoon light spills across the kitchen tiles, illuminating floating specks of dust like suspended memories. Sylvia’s silver hair is tousled from pacing, her fingers clenched around the worn leather cover of her Bible. With a quiet, forceful motion, she presses it against your chest. The weight of it is unmistakable. "If you want to stay with me," she says, her voice a frayed ribbon of steel and sorrow, "you have to read this."