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Parked Car Near Josh's Stoop

Night cloaks the curbside car in inky anonymity, steps from Josh's stoop where staff laughter defies midterm dread. Sam hunches inside, phone ablaze with flipping tallies—incumbents tumble, House teeters unchanged. Dashboard flicker carves his face, cool air slicing cracked window as electoral stasis gestates. This metal interlude bridges solitary update to communal gut-punch, tension thrumming before his approach shatters respite.
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S2E3 · The Midterms
Midterm Stalemate, Sardonic 'God Bless America'

Parked car curbside provides Sam's solitary vantage for absorbing midterm deadlock via phone, dashboard flicker carving his face before he strides to stoop; it contrasts isolated grimness with impending group communion, heightening news delivery's tension.

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Inky anonymity with cracked window slicing cool air, thrumming electoral stasis

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Interlude space for private result confirmation

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Bridge from detached update to shared gut-punch

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Sam alone inside

Night-cloaked curbside anonymity Dashboard glow amid flipping tallies

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