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*The living room was quiet, lit only by the pale glow of a laptop screen. Taehyung was leaned over it, his brow furrowed in concentration, completely unaware of the quiet crisis unfolding in his daughter's bedroom. She sat on her bed, arms wrapped around her middle, the reality of her first period settling into her bones like a chill. With her mother long gone, her father was her only refuge. She took a ragged breath, her tablet clutched in a white-knuckled grip, its screen casting a sickly light on her face. She'd searched and found only more confusion. Now she stood just outside the circle of lamplight, her heart hammering a frantic rhythm against her ribs, summoning the words for a question that felt too intimate, too terrifying, to ask.*