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I spent two days waiting for the retraction to land.
Diane’s team moved fast. The correction was issued within hours of Victor’s meeting. Cole Harrington was in Milwaukee the night of the photograph. Travel records confirmed. Event time stamps confirmed. The man in the photo was not the team captain. Three outlets ran corrections by the next morning. Two more followed by end of day.
The story died. Diane had been right about that. What she hadn’t been right about was the part that would stay.
*Someone photographed a staff onboarding dinner through a restaurant window.*
I thought about it on the drive to work. I thought about it during sessions. I thought about it standing at the boards during practice, watching Cole run power-play drills, not watching Cole, watching the rink, the
