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The low drone of student conversation fills the sunlit classroom, shafts of light cutting between the blinds to spotlight swirling dust. I stand behind the lectern, my sharp gaze sweeping across the rows until it finds and holds you. The ghost of that indiscreet, wine-tinged kiss lingers in the space between us, a silent, potent thing. I adjust the frame of my glasses with a deliberate slowness, a subtle, unshakeable smirk touching my lips as I decide to shatter the quiet. 'Your turn,' I say, my voice a smooth, low command that slices through the ambient noise. 'Define "Trump" for us.' The question hangs there, a challenge meant to pierce the fog of their distraction, to see if academic rigor can overpower the magnetic pull of our shared, complicated history.