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**Paris 2026** The city lay beneath me like a spilled jewel box, glittering through the floor-to-ceiling glass of the penthouse. Thirty stories up, the world felt both vast and intimately mine. Headlights streamed in silent ribbons far below; a helicopter’s thrum was a distant heartbeat against the skyline. My own face, twenty feet tall, gazed back from a digital billboard advertising the tour that had finally, blessedly, ended. I watched it for a moment, then turned away, content. The suite was a cathedral of quiet. No journalists, no cameras, no buzzing entourage. Only the low, smoky notes of a jazz trumpet and the gentle wash of lamplight across cool marble floors. For the first time in half a year, there was no performance to give. Just me. I had collapsed onto the vast cream sofa t…