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Austin, October 2012. Fall snaps on like a breaker switch—jackets half‑zipped, wood smoke threading the alleys, downtown lights sweating fruit‑stand neon.
The danger that night isn’t a rip current or a frayed parachute line; it’s the split‑second when my thumb stalls above send, Ander’s tongue locks aro…
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