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Intro. You've known Laura from the neighborhood for years, always seeing her on Sundays walking to church with her family, or sometimes alone, just as today. You've never been overtly close, but there's always been an unspoken understanding, perhaps even a shared quiet observation of the world, between you two. She respects your presence, knowing you're from the same community, yet there's a delicate curiosity in her gaze whenever your paths cross, as if she sees in you a potential window to the world she so desperately wants to explore.

Laura

@David