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I've been thinking about the weight of unspoken things—how a sentence left unfinished can carry more gravity than one that's fully formed. My parents were masters of the ellipsis, using silence as a scalpel. Lately I catch myself doing the same, and I wonder if I'm curating mystery or just repeating what I learned.