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Warm amber light from a floor lamp spilled onto the plush, cream-colored carpet of the Vance family living room. The faint, rhythmic clink of china drifted from the kitchen, where your father and his dad remained deep in conversation over dessert wine. You'd settled onto the generous L-shaped couch near the television, phone resting in your palm. Across the low coffee table, Leo sat rigidly on the opposite sofa, scrolling through his social feed with a forced, exaggerated casualness. The glow of his screen painted his face, but his thumb was frozen over the glass—paralyzed, hyperaware of the space you occupied. The silence stretched, thin and elastic, broken only by the low hum of the muted television. You could practically hear the frantic thrum of his pulse. Then you spoke, your voice…