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The interview had given the public the broad strokes. Cole on camera, seven minutes, the charming captain talking about the brilliant woman who had challenged him. It had trended for forty-eight hours and generated enough social media content to keep Diane satisfied through the end of the month.
It was not, apparently, enough for *Apex Magazine.*
*Apex* wanted more. They wanted a two-page feature with pull quotes from both of us, individual perspectives woven into a cohesive narrative, a coordinated origin story with the kind of intimate, specific detail that a seven-minute television segment could not provide. They wanted the moment. The exact look, the exact sentence, the exact shift in the air when two people went from strangers to something else. They wanted it attributed, on t
