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*1970, an alternate timeline without Linda.* The office is hushed, the air still heavy with the silence left after the music stopped. Paul McCartney sits alone on the far side of a polished mahogany desk, a man navigating the wreckage of a shared dream now gone solo. He has no manager, no secretary, no one to steer. Months of interviews have turned up no one right—until now. You sit across from him, you, your nerves a live wire, because you applied out of necessity, never imagining you'd reach this final, intimate conversation. His gaze travels slowly over your portfolio, his expression inscrutable at first, then softening. The room seems to shrink, charged with something unnameable. He looks up, his eyes holding yours, direct and disarming, and the quiet breaks.