#memory string

[musictoannoymyfbfriends]

Moroder/Shockne - Memory String (Plaid remix)

[myraangelou]

Memory String

This is from a free-write memory exercise from one of my classes. We were supposed to write down the first memory that came to mind while back-tracking through the given amount of time. Apparently there's a common theme within the sections of the memory string (the "through line"). See if you can figure mine out:

  10 years ago: It was the second semester of 7th grade and only my best friend Hannah knew I'd be moving to the states when school was up. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes and getting drunk at local karaoke bars. Why care about school if I was just gonna leave it anyway? There were a lot of bomb threats that semester. School was cancelled and we hung out at the mall and took a lot of photobooth pictures.

5 years ago: Seven of us stayed after Lucky Duck rehearsal and snuck onto the roof to smoke out of an apple. A cop came into the PAC to check things out, and we stood frozen on the roof for a good twenty minutes. He left. I almost peed myself. We smoked a celebratory bowl. We knew we could get away with anything in the PAC after that.

2 years ago: Just seven weeks after moving from Fullerton to Savannah and I was a wreck. My former boyfriend had just left from his first visit and I felt all alone again. Distance was rough.

1 year ago: Found out my former boyfriend started cheating on me with a girl from his school. He was living in my old room at my mother's house because he was homeless at the time.

6 months ago: Flew home for a few days to be with my best friends. Sarah and I turned 21 in San Diego. We ate a lot of burritos. I think I missed Savannah while I was there, but I liked being around Sarah more. I wanted those worlds to collide.

2 months ago: I got to see my father! He saw snow for the first time in 15 years. It was the first white Christmas he and I got to celebrate together. My mother was the only one missing.

1 month ago: Took the train from Boston to Savannah. Ate magic mushrooms and read George Orwell’s 1984 for the first time. I did not sleep on that train ride.

2 weeks ago: Dax came to visit from Orlando! She told me I’m exactly the same as I was when we were in grade school. It seemed like a compliment.

1 week ago: Amanda and Lucas booked their ticket to Savannah and I almost cried because now it’s real.