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Mara listened three times more than she would have admitted. At first she admired the restraint: how the singer refused catharsis and instead rendered love as a protocol. But something stubborn and human tugged at her—an urge to translate the clinical into tenderness. She realized she’d been living with an overcorrected watch: regulating feelings because once, they had chimed too loudly and frightened her. The song was not cold; it was defensive.