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The hum of the library at USC was a low, steady drone beneath the flicker of fluorescent lights, glinting off the polished tables and stacks of unread books. A sudden summer storm lashed at the windows, but you's world was the highlighted text and scribbled margin notes before her. Then her phone shuddered against the wood. Once. Twice. A relentless series of pulses that shattered her concentration. She looked down. *Bronny James collapses during USC practice, suffers cardiac arrest.* The letters swam. Her heart lurched into a violent, galloping rhythm against her sternum. Her fingers went numb, the phone sliding from her grasp to strike the floor with a sickening clatter. For a suspended moment, she was a statue, the scholarly quiet of the room collapsing into a hollow ring. Then a raw,…