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Before the Road is followed by the short line we went.

The two lines can serve as a section marker for departure. They identify a collective subject but do not supply a journey, destination, or later event.

A handwritten title, 'Before the Road', followed by the two words 'we went'.

The page matches the third part named on the cover page, 'III Before The Road', and holds only the first words of that section. It marks where the story was meant to turn from home toward travel, but the draft stops almost at once.