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They open a bottle of wine from the Potrero Hill years. Both become extremely ill. Aunt K is pregnant. She loses the baby. Testing reveals mycophenolic acid — an immunosuppressant for organ transplants — at thirteen times the normal range. Aunt K'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.
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 thirteen 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.