Post 5
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Nothing Stolen
Power cut to one unit. Neighbors still have theirs. The electrical closet forced open, hinges removed. Drill holes in the walls. Nothing stolen. The intrusion itself was the point.
Potrero Hill
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Act I
Post 6
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The Illness
Something is wrong with Steve. Conflicting diagnoses. Tara moves in to take care of him. The symptoms don't match any single explanation. Neither does her attentiveness.
Act III
Post 7
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The Wine Bottle
She threw a wine bottle at his head. The relationship ends. Or it should have. The breakup has the shape of a Gone Girl exit — perfect victim, perfect villain, nothing quite adding up.
Act VI
Post 30
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The Reno Bottle
They open a bottle of wine from the Potrero Hill years. Both become extremely ill. Kelly is pregnant. She loses the baby. Testing reveals mycophenolic acid — an immunosuppressant for organ transplants — at seven times the normal range. Kelly's levels spike to fourteen times normal, then fall to zero. A single acute poisoning from a bottle that waited on a shelf for months.
Act VII
Post 33
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Four Discoveries
The four poisoning discoveries placed side by side. Lithium in March 2017 — six times normal, no prescription. The Brooklyn night — dissociation, tampered medication, no sample preserved. Abby Tedla's confession — 'she did it all the time.' The Reno bottle — mycophenolic acid at seven times the upper bound, in wine that had been sitting on a shelf for years. What looked like separate incidents becomes a single line drawn across four years and four substances.