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On a night when the city looked scraped clean and rewritten in snow, when the wind cut through the streets with deliberate cruelty, Claire Holloway stood beneath a sputtering diner sign with exactly twenty dollars clenched in her pocket so tightly the bills had gone soft from sweat, fear, and stubborn hope. If anyone had asked what she wanted most in that moment, it would not have been warmth or rest or even food for herself. It would have been that the two children holding her hands would never remember this as the Christmas Eve when hunger finally became real.