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This brief title-like page frames what follows as a memory or section about the time before departure.

Because it is so short, the page functions almost like a threshold. `Before the Road / we went` suggests an origin point before movement, travel, or exile. The phrasing is awkward in a way that feels deliberate, as though the road is already rearranging syntax before the journey begins.

Two lines: `Before the Road / we went`. A section divider in the collection's structural plan, marking the hinge before the road trip material.