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The arrest happened without drama. No flashing lights cutting through the dark, no raised voices spilling into the street. Neighbors would later say it was so quiet they almost missed it—a single knock, a door opening, a brief exchange too soft to hear from across the road. Then the door closed again. A vehicle rolled away. By the time the sky began to lighten, everything looked unchanged from the outside.
But nothing was the same.
Only hours earlier, she had been sitting at her kitchen table, scrolling through messages from people who planned to attend the next vigil. She had been thinking about candles, about permits, about whether the weather would hold. She had been thinking about Renee. Every plan she made, every breath she took, still revolved around the absence that had settled into her life like a second atmosphere.
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