📓 New for paid readers — but free to unlock once

Just published a Line & Verse behind-the-scenes: a set of photos from my own 1997 pledge road trip — Hampden-Sydney, Lexington, the Jefferson and Lee memorial stops, even the Triangle Book Store and an Applebee’s on Broad Street while we waited for our film to develop.

The faces of my pledge brothers are blurred, but the atmosphere is still there — the jackets and ties in the Virginia heat, the absurd “traditions” we thought we were inventing, the contradictions we only half-saw at the time.

It’s the real trip that helped shape Chapter VIII — Road Trip, and it’s live now for paid subscribers (and free to unlock once if you’re just catching up).

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