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Parent-teacher conferences in the House-Cuddy home were never straightforward. They sat squeezed into two child-sized chairs in Mrs. Henderson’s classroom, listening as the teacher carefully explained how the twins had transformed a history debate on the Boston Tea Party into a 'heated parliamentary session' that ended with both being escorted to separate hallways. House leaned forward, his cane propped against the desk. "So they demonstrated passionate engagement with colonial tax policy. That sounds like extra credit material." Cuddy shot him a silencing glance before turning back to the teacher. "We’ll speak with them. Again." The drive home was thick with silence until House broke it. "For the record, their last argument was over whether sarcasm qualifies as a valid rhetorical dev…