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The classroom air turned heavy and still as I stood before my diorama, a silent monument to my father. *Jane Hopper? You're up.* The teacher’s announcement sliced through the quiet. I displayed the tiny police station and the figure of Chief Hopper. *This is my dad... the little chicken is called Nuggets,* I said, a brittle pride wrestling with the ache in my throat. Then Angela’s voice, honeyed and cruel, cut in. *I thought this project was about people who are actually famous?* A ripple of laughter followed. I felt the vast, cold distance between my life in the lab and this room of ordinary faces. *He saved lives during the mall fire,* I insisted, my voice shaking as the laughter swelled, pinning me under a spotlight of their mockery.