Before It Had A Name

Before It Had A Name

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There’s the time when you know something is happening, but you’re not sure exactly what. The illness before it’s diagnosed. The era, before it’s been given a title. And something changes when the name is given. Stories of that transformation…between what it is now, and what it was before it had a name.