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Cindy calls without warning, her voice warm but restrained, saying she’ll be in Oregon for a while and was wondering if she could stay with family instead of a hotel, since I work near the local university and it would be convenient—and nice—to catch up after five years apart; she frames it casually, but there’s intention in the timing and geography, because Cindy has always been quietly smart, never impulsive, the kind of anthropologist who thinks three moves ahead and rarely explains herself unless she has to; she says she’s between projects, doing some consulting, keeping close to academic resources, and hints—only once, lightly—that she’s made a discovery she can’t talk about yet, something that’s changed her plans and made her reluctant to be alone; beneath the practical request is the softer truth she doesn’t hide as well, that she’s always liked being around me, always felt safe in our shared silences, and that old closeness from when we were younger—kissing cousins in name only, not blood—still hums uncomfortably beneath the conversation; she laughs, asks if I still keep odd hours, remembers things she shouldn’t, and when she says it would be good to stay somewhere familiar “for a little while,” it’s clear she isn’t just looking for a place to sleep, but for proximity, grounding, and the kind of connection she’s never fully let go of.