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By the time the cameras cut away, the echo lingered. The air hadn’t simply returned to normal; it had shifted. Somewhere between the admission and the listening, between the courage to speak and the courage to hear, something improbable had happened. A nation accustomed to outrage and spectacle had glimpsed something rarer: the possibility that accountability could exist alongside respect, that legacy could coexist with humility, and that confrontation, handled with honesty, might not destroy—it might illuminate.
