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The notification was not a routine test. It came without ceremony or countdown, cutting across the steady rhythm of daily life. Phones vibrated on kitchen tables, radios shifted tone mid-broadcast, television screens dimmed and displayed urgent banners. For a brief second, conversations halted and routines fractured. Though officials described the alert as precautionary, its arrival carried an unmistakable gravity. It felt less like a distant advisory and more like a reminder that the boundary between historical memory and present reality can narrow without warning.C
