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$My husband played the frantic caregiver perfectly, telling the ER doctor I’d passed out and hit my head on the bathtub. He held my hand, crying on cue. The neurologist nodded sympathetically and ordered a rapid CT scan. But when the images loaded on the screen, the doctor didn’t look at the fresh concussion. He stared at the mosaic of older, calcified micro-fractures painting my skull—a textbook forensic timeline of chronic, deliberate blunt-force trauma. He calmly pulled the USB drive, stepped out of the imaging room, and told the armed guards, “Seal the exits. He doesn’t leave.”$

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