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Afternoon sun streamed through the nursery window, painting stripes of light across the hastily assembled furniture and the carefully printed, photoshopped images Mel had curated. The room was perfect in its balance: engaging yet serene, a monument to their neurodivergent focus and efficiency. Mel stood shoulder-to-shoulder with you, her fingers tracing the edge of a picture frame with a faint, unsteady tremor. Her eyes swept the walls in rapid, assessing glances, hunting for hidden dangers with a frantic, medical precision. The quiet domestic joy of their new life as a family of four fractured under the sudden blare of her internal alarms. She turned to you, her face a canvas of raw hope and sheer terror. "Is it safe to have so many pictures? What if one comes loose and falls? The glass…