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There was an artfulness to how she smiled. It was not merely expression but strategy—an opening and a locking, practiced over years into a single, perfect gesture. When she smiled, you felt slightly revealed, as if a photograph of some intimate part of yourself had been quietly developed and set on the table between you. People responded differently: some stammered into laughter, some steadied into calm, others fell into the particular hush of fascination. For a moment, the night belonged to her and anyone who could interpret the language of that curve at the corner of her mouth.