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The page is a compact statement of estrangement: even the sound of the sea has changed.

By attaching that altered hearing to a name and place, the note becomes more than observation. It feels like a record of displacement, where geography remains but the world's texture no longer matches memory.

A four-line title card. Seas don't sound the same, Raster Johnson, Kauai. A place-and-sound headline.