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.After that night, Claire Mitchell withdrew from everything familiar. She went home with a numb sense of disbelief, unable to reconcile the life she thought she had with the life she had actually lived. Friends and family tried to comfort her, offering explanations that ranged from “maybe there’s more to the story” to “he must have been hiding something for a long time,” but none of it filled the hollow uncertainty that now occupied her thoughts. The home that had felt secure now seemed alien, e