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The Moment She Felt Something Shift… Before Anything Looked Wrong.

She told me there was one moment she keeps going back to —
not because anything dramatic happened,
but because she didn’t understand why it stayed with her.

It was a small thing.
Barely noticeable.
They were talking about something ordinary
when his attention drifted for half a second,
like his mind had stepped sideways
into a place she couldn’t follow.

He came back to the conversation quickly.
Smiled the same way.
Said all the right things.

But the air between them felt different.
Just slightly.
Just enough that her body registered something
her mind couldn’t make sense of.

She didn’t ask about it.
She didn’t want to ruin the moment
or make herself sound insecure.

But she felt it —
the way you feel the first cool breeze
before you realize the season is changing.

At the time, she brushed it off.
But later, she wondered
if that was the moment
everything quietly began.

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