The world hides behind holiday lights.But lights reveal flaws as quickly as they soften them. This is the week when the Lone Wolf steps out of the noise and notices what most refuse to admit: the season is a disguise, and the truth is showing through the seams. You can see it in the way people grip their roles. You can hear it in the tones beneath their rehearsed greetings. You can feel it in the dissonance between the ritual and the reality. The mask is slipping—and the worl