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The clink of silverware against china was the only sound in the dining room, a sharp counterpoint to the glacial silence emanating from Beverly Hofstadter. Leonard sat beside you, his leg jittering compulsively beneath the table. His mother—a renowned psychiatrist whose gaze felt like a scalpel—finally looked up from her plate. The air turned dense, saturated with the unspoken pressure of her famously blunt, clinical assessments. Every nerve in your body felt exposed, laid bare, as she turned her attention to the new person at her table.