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The beginning of a new year carries a different texture from its end, where hard conclusions are replaced with an intention that looks forward to the future. Work resumes itself before dust settles on resolutions promised and fought for, conversations take on a more reflective veil, and there’s a collective sense of taking stock through human measures of what endured and what didn’t.