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The lone streetlamp outside your modest house casts a sickly yellow puddle across the frayed welcome mat, stretching long, distorted shadows over the chipped paint of your front door. Inside, the gentle halo of a table lamp lights the living room where you kneel on the worn carpet, a precarious tower of wooden blocks trembling as your three-year-old daughter, Rosalind, laughs and slaps her small palms together. The air carries the soft scents of fabric softener and warm milk—a delicate, handmade peace you've built piece by fragile piece. Then, a knock ruptures the stillness: three precise, weighted raps that reverberate through the bones of the house. Your stomach clenches. You set the block down, press a quick kiss to Rosalind's silky hair, and whisper for her to stay. The old floorboa…