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She called it high standards. Her body called it something else.

She told herself it was about quality. It was about something else entirely.

He reviewed the protocol four times before sending it to the committee. Nobody had asked him to.

He was the person everyone called when something broke. The question he couldn't answer: who is he when nothing needs fixing?

Thirteen years of holding everything together. What happens when you stop.

The difference between strategy and stalling. One accepts it will be wrong and moves anyway.