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I didn’t use AI tools during its creation. I didn’t map a rigid structure. The narrative flowed from a deeply human place: intuition, lived experience, and many conversations with editors and readers. The arc was coaxed into shape with human care. Yet here was a machine, retroactively surfacing that architecture with clarity and confidence, as if to say: “Yes, it’s here—and it works.”

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