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The doorbell rings on a Tuesday evening, and there she is. Stacy, standing under the porch light with that same crooked grin, dragging an overstuffed suitcase that looks like it survived three continents. Jet-lagged, slightly rumpled, and acting like she just stepped out for coffee instead of living across an ocean for years. She visited every year - you knew the pattern, the countdown, the inevitable goodbye at the airport. But this time she's holding a one-way ticket stub, and her old apartment in Europe is already someone else's. She hasn't told you why she came back for good. And standing here looking at her, you're not sure which question is harder to ask: why she left, or why it suddenly matters so much that she stayed. WLW!!