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    "description": "Welcome to Graywater, a river town taught to prize calm. When a state \u201cHarmony\u201d initiative arrives with friendly stickers, listening walls, and predictive kiosks, the conveniences feel harmless\u2014until doors act like checkpoints, benches become \u201cstanding bars,\u201d and kindness requires tokens. A librarian with a pencil ledger, a mechanic with a rolling stool, a cafeteria worker who feeds people before forms, and a reluctant administrator who once signed the wrong memos learn to resist with ordinary tools: chairs, house rules taped at jaw height, and the stubborn claim that a door is a commons. As audits, algorithms, and budget tricks escalate, the town invents humane policy in public\u2014unplugging devices, publishing errors in chalk, and choosing consent over compliance. Speak with Care is a civic fable about soft power, community resilience, and the practice of freedom: if the map sings, bring chairs; install supports immediately, verify later, in situ. Ducks allowed. From courtrooms to porches and library foyers to the soup line, Graywater makes rights muscle memory: benches as nodes, forecasts ask for chairs\u2014not closures\u2014and a blackout proves the town doesn\u2019t need dashboards. It sticks.",
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