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... us the moment someone hesitates.
The city didn’t change overnight. That was the strange part. No new notices. No revised protocols. No carefully worded statements meant to sound cooperative. Everything looked the same—until it didn’t.
People started waiting.
Not for approval.
For us.
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It showed up in small delays first.
A sanctioned team paused mid-task, glancing toward the edge where we usually worked. Th ...
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