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The banquet hall of the St. Jude’s Institute for the Preservation of Civic Memory smelled of roasted duck, stale wine, and the peculiar, metallic tang of institutional decay. It was a grand affair, the kind of event where the air was thick with the unspoken agreements of the elite, where handshakes were performed with the precision of surgical instruments and smiles were fixed in place like...
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