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This reads as a compressed life story, focusing on departure, improvisation, and the abruptness of adulthood. It can be taken to mean that a person’s working life began not with ceremony but with necessity and movement, with the details of place and weather making the transition feel immediate. It lands when someone looks back at a first break from school or home and remembers how quickly life started to happen.
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