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And with that, Liz knew that no matter where life took her, she would always have the ocean—and her grandmother's wisdom—to guide her.

It was Liz’s eighteenth birthday, and for the first time in her life, the "Gifted and Talented" labels and the crushing expectations of a small-town scholarship track were in the rearview mirror. The file name on her laptop— TripForFuck.23.10.17 —was a joke she’d typed in a moment of sleep-deprived rebellion, a shorthand for "The trip we’re taking because forget everything else."