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A couple weeks ago my friend and I went on a spontaneous road trip. We drove 75 miles from Cambridge, Massachusetts to eat lobster at Barnacle Billy’s in Ogunquit, Maine — a beach town with painted storefronts and roads bordering the ocean. We had one goal: to celebrate the birthday of her sister, who would be meeting us there with her wife.