Prelude
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This is where your chosen excerpt will live. A single sustained passage from the memoir — the opening paragraphs of the Prelude, a key scene from the apprenticeship, or a passage that contains the felt heart of the book.
Send Yolo the excerpt text (1–3 pages, whatever length feels right) and it will replace this placeholder. The page is already styled in the brand register: serif body, italic chapter mark, a coloured drop cap on the first paragraph, single column for reading flow, generous line height, no distractions.
The reader arrives here from the home page (clicks Read an Excerpt), enters the prose, finishes, then meets the buy moment below.
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