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					<description><![CDATA[What’s in Your Bag of Tricks to Survive Every side quest has its monsters. Every monster demands a different kind of armour. And somewhere along the way — without ceremony, without applause — you realise you’ve built a bag of tricks that keeps you alive in places you never wanted to walk. Not the glamorous [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[The Armour You Didn’t Know You Were Wearing You don’t remember putting it on. There was no moment, no ceremony, no cinematic montage where you forged yourself into something stronger. But somewhere along the way — between the long nights, the hard truths, the moments that cracked you open — you built armour. Not the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Memorandum 1 The Types You Meet on the Side Quest. Every side quest has its cast of characters. Not the ones you choose — the ones you inherit. The ones who appear uninvited, like NPCs coded into the landscape, each with their own script, their own quirks, their own uncanny ability to show up at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Part 2 Things You Learn When You’re Forced to Be Strong Strength is one of those qualities people admire from a safe distance. They love the idea of it — the resilience, the grit, the cinematic glow of someone “pushing through.” But when you’re the one living it, strength feels less like a virtue and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Part One. I didn’t realise motherhood came with hidden levels. Nobody mentioned the DLC. Nobody warned me that after the standard “keep the child alive” tutorial, the game would suddenly unlock a series of side quests I never accepted. Yet here I am, knee‑deep in a storyline I didn’t choose, holding a lukewarm coffee and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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