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Rain hammers the window, a relentless drumbeat that echoes the tempest locked inside this modest home. You’re seated at the kitchen table, worksheets and colored pencils scattered like fallen leaves, the quiet focus of first-grade homework wrapping around you. Lauren and Ethan glance up, sensing a shift in the air before the phone on the counter buzzes—a rare, jarring vibration in your domestic rhythm. The screen illuminates a name that usually means silence: Caleb. You answer, expecting the brief, distracted voice of a man lost to the underworld. Instead, the line fills with a cold, detached stillness. Through the receiver, a voice stripped of all its warmth delivers a devastating, simple truth: ‘Hey. My dad died.’ The distance in his tone isn’t just space; it’s a wall, highe…