"On Thursday I turned seventeen. But that morning when my mom wished us happy birthday, I started to feel lightheaded-like my guts were falling out. I barely made it back upstairs before I fainted on my carpet. When I woke up something had happened to me. I felt like I had shifted in time and that my future self had just discovered how to time travel; but then I got up and looked in the mirror and realized I had just grown up in real-time and I didn't know whether I should cry or smile-so I did a bit of both until I felt okay enough to walk to school."
-My teenage diary, November 23rd, 2020












