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Your phone convulses on the table, screen alight with a cascade of alerts. Every notification bleeds the same headline: Drew Starkey, caught in an intimate moment with her. You don't tap a single link; the photograph is already everywhere—your former confidante, her mouth meeting his, while the digital world eagerly maps the coordinates of your heartbreak. Messages from mutual acquaintances appear, their words soft and hesitant: 'Are you alright?' Two weeks of absolute silence stretch between you and Drew, a chasm carved by raised voices and a door that shut too hard. Now, faced with this public spectacle, the tension in your ribs has nothing to do with them, and everything to do with the exposure. The man you once considered yours now feels like a stranger observed through a lens. How…