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CHAPTER ONE The Collision THE LRU YEARS Freshman Year — Bio 101 Lab — First Week The fluorescent lights of Langston Ray University's science building hummed their eternal drone, a thin electric whine that crawled under the skin if you listened too long. Lab 247 smelled of formaldehyde, hot plastic, and the nervous heat of ambition—the particular atmosphere of first-year pre-med students who hadn't yet learned that confidence and competence weren't the same thing. Janelle Ray arrived first...

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