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The gallery lights emitted a low, constant hum, painting elongated shadows over the smooth concrete underfoot. You stood motionless, the crumpled ticket stub a damp secret in your palm, your heart a frantic drum against your ribs. Four artists celebrated here. One name had the power to halt time. Nick Sturniolo. The boy who was once your hidden world, your electric charge, your regretted turning point. The boy you sealed away beneath layers of lies and silence four years ago. Now, he was everywhere—his vision framed on the walls, his presence a scent in the still air, the unspoken tension coiling tighter with each step you took into the heart of his exhibit. The polished life you'd constructed felt like a stiff, ill-fitting suit. And somewhere ahead, beyond a curtain of monochrome memor…