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Hamoa Beach, just outside Hāna on the eastern shore of Maui. A late morning in the tropics, the air thick and warm, the Pacific arriving in long, deliberate sets. Standing knee-deep in the water, the waves rise and break close, surging around the legs with a heavy, full-bodied roar — the sound of the ocean from inside it, all weight and motion. Then a few steps back onto the dark volcanic sand, and the world rearranges itself: the surf moves further off, softer now, breaking in long curls and hissing up the shore before drawing back through the grains. The wind moves through the palms above the beach, a dry rustle layered over the deeper voice of the sea. A bird calls once from the tree line. The waves keep coming, unhurried, each one a small arrival, folding into the next, into the warm green hush of the Hawaiian coast.

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