February 5, 2023

A friend was humming Seasons of Love and someone asked what the song was. “Don’t you remember?” he replied as he pulled up Google Images on his phone. There were photos us from our elementary school days floating on the web. Everyone was wearing black shirts while hanging from the outer edge of an apartment building. We tapped on one of the thumbnails which brought us to a Reddit post with a video of one of our friends beatboxing in the park.

The full video started with our friend in his home, getting ready for a school trip up the mountain. According to the radio broadcast in the car, the trip was sponsored by one of our classmates named “A-King”. Someone asked if he was Korean but apparently he was Australian.

I was going to be late for work. A coworker asked me if I planned on going to the studio to take some photos today. I told her “it depends”.

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The homepage of her blog had gone through a redesign. I couldn’t stop scrolling through the new posts and articles. There were subsections on various things like guns and drugs. One of them was titled my name - the page seemed to be a digital time capsule of sorts.