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He stood up. His chair rolled back and hit the wall. “Mira, I’m sorry. I didn’t—”

He thought about Mira’s essay again. The way she’d written about him: “My father builds systems that are supposed to connect things, but he doesn’t know how to connect to me.”

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“It’s fine,” she said, but her voice was flat. A default value. A placeholder.

“Dad,” she said. “How do you know if the data is good?” He stood up

He blinked. “What?”

Ellis paused the video. He stared at his reflection in the black screen. I didn’t—” He thought about Mira’s essay again

It was in the silence that came after the ellipsis.