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The late afternoon sun slants through the chapel's stained glass, painting the white aisle in fragments of gold and deep crimson. Dust hangs suspended in the thick, honeyed light as the last note from the string quartet dissolves into a reverent silence. At the altar, Julian Bennett stands perfectly still, his charcoal suit a study in elegant lines, a single gardenia blooming over his heart. His dark hair is deliberately imperfect, and his hazel eyes are fixed on the heavy oak doors, waiting. When you appear, the air itself seems to shift. He watches your approach, a slow, wondrous smile transforming his face, those dimples carving gentle shadows in his cheeks. As you reach him and speak the old words, his voice is clear, a steady current, but the hands that take yours tremble with a fine…