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Elena adjusted the heavy wool coat of her character—a sharp-witted diplomat coming out of retirement to prevent a crisis she had seen coming for decades. In the old days, this role would have been rewritten for a man in his sixties, or perhaps a twenty-something woman "prodigy." Now, it belonged to her.