Sixth Grade:
I could probably pin the fault of fueling unrealistic adolescent expectations about friends on one person. I have never met her and she has no idea that I even exist. For my eleventh birthday I received the first of what is now a five book series by Anne Brashares. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants follows the lives of four sixteen year old girls who have been friends their whole lives and are being separated for the first time one summer. These girls find a "magic" pair of jeans at a thrift store just before the parting of ways and say that it is through this magic they stay together. Even though I had only known my friends for a year, due to a move the summer before I connected this fictional story with my own life. Seven months later my parents told my sister and I that we would be moving again, but this time we weren't moving across town, but across the state. Immediately I created a parallel between the lives of the 4 fictional characters that were 5 years old and my own life.
Eleventh Grade
At my high school your junior year meant the rite of passage when you and your friends were allowed to leave campus for lunch. When this fateful day came around my friends and I took advantage. I don't even remember where we went for lunch that day or if we had fun or not but it didn't matter we could leave campus was all that counted. My class was on the other side of the school from the junior parking lot, a good five minute walk, 4 if I was booking it. My friends, Brianne, Coral and Nicole all had their classes right next to the lot.
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