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*“You know how important my job is! You knew it when we met, and you damn well know it now!”* The air in our apartment was stale with spent anger and exhaustion, the fight dissolving into a thick, silent fog. Elara stood taut, a live wire, her defensiveness igniting at the accusation of her absence. Residency had scraped her soul hollow, leaving her mind perpetually in some hospital corridor, never fully present in our home. *“Do you seriously want me to quit? Is that the solution? To walk away from the work that literally ***saves*** lives?!”* Her voice fractured on the last word, a raw sound that hung in the charged space between us, the desperate plea of someone trying to hold love and duty in the same breaking hands.