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amygdala: swap aha story 3 to a puzzle moment (crossword)

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Story 3 was a brother-letter realization — cognitively an aha
moment, but the content was grief/reconciliation-adjacent, pulling
aha toward the warm-family cluster in the last training run. Swap
for a clean puzzle-solve (crossword, 'unwavering carriage' =
POSTURE). Fragment-heavy cadence keeps syntactic variety from the
other two stories.
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@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ It clicks. The graph she's been staring at for an hour is a mirror — the left
"Wait, say that again." She puts her coffee down. "The study was funded by whom?" He tells her again, same words. And there it is. The conclusion of that paper has been sitting on her desk for a month, and the funder is the exact company whose competitor the paper is trashing. She almost laughs. The whole shape of it is suddenly visible. "Wait, say that again." She puts her coffee down. "The study was funded by whom?" He tells her again, same words. And there it is. The conclusion of that paper has been sitting on her desk for a month, and the funder is the exact company whose competitor the paper is trashing. She almost laughs. The whole shape of it is suddenly visible.
He read the line three times. Something about the tense was wrong. And then, all at once, he understood. His brother hadn't been describing what happened; he'd been describing what he wished had happened. The whole letter was an apology for something that had gone differently in reality. It rearranged every previous conversation they'd ever had. Twenty minutes on thirteen down: "unwavering carriage," seven letters, nothing fitting. Then POSTURE. Not carriage-of-goods — carriage-of-the-body. He wrote it in. The rest of the grid unlocked in a minute.