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@ktown_mel · 23 Jan 2026 · 10:15

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Mel @ktown_mel · 23 Jan 2026 · 10:15

Small practical thing nobody is covering: the German kids in my daughter's class made her a card.

She is seven. She does not know what an asset freeze is. She knows the card said "wir vermissen dich schon" — we miss you already — and she has not put it down since.

That is what the drawdown actually is, at ground level. Seven year olds saying goodbye in two languages.

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