Maya’s brother had laughed when she told him she’d signed up. “It’s just a show,” he’d said. “Like all those talent contests.” He’d never seen the behind-the-scenes slog — the producers who turned desperation into ratings, the contracts that erased names and stitched contestants into narratives. He’d never learned how easily a promise of “free” could become a sentence.

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