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He left without sirens. There was no breaking news banner scrolling across screens, no trending hashtag demanding attention, no global alert to mark the moment. Instead, it came quietly, almost imperceptibly: a sentence spoken in a room that suddenly felt impossibly large, where the air seemed heavier and stiller than anyone was prepared to bear. In that silence, the truth of his impact became undeniable. We hadn’t fully seen how much he held together, how many lives he steadied simply by showing up, by being present. No marquee announced him. No monument bore his name. Yet his absence reverberated like a pulse through every corner of the world he touched, pressing against edges we didn’t even know existed.
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