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I noticed it first on a Wednesday.

This is not entirely accurate. I had been noticing it for weeks before the Wednesday, in the specific and background way that you noticed things when your attention was primarily on something else and the thing you were noticing was not yet loud enough to require the foreground. It had been accumulating in the peripheral and unexamined way of evidence that had not yet reached the threshold of a conclusion, the particular and incremental quality of a case being built by a part of your brain that had not yet seen fit to brief the rest of it.

On the Wednesday it...