The End of The Beginning

The End of The Beginning

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The End of The Beginning
The End of The Beginning
The End: Part 1

The End: Part 1

Day 149

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Amber Lea Carter
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Songs:

Fine Line, Harry Styles

Heal, Tom Odell

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So tonight I was going through some old diary entries from Bible Camp, trying to prep for the first retrospective post, and I ran across a hilarious letter I had drafted during my first year on the Youth Ministry Team (YMT) at Okoboji Bible Camp. I had met Eric and Tammy the summer before, when we were all summer counselors at Okoboji, and apparently had felt so invested in their relationship that I felt entitled to comment on their break-up??? 20-year old me was a TRIP.

This is Eric, a truly cool guy despite my 20 yr old letter-writing assertions (and one of my best friends that first summer)
Tammy, the poster girl for late ‘90s/early ‘00s cuteness

After recording a dramatic reading of the letter, I posted it to my Facebook and tagged a few friends from that summer who I knew would definitely remember who and what I was talking about, and then clicked back to the Home Page.

And then suddenly there *he* was, staring right back at me, his newly-made Facebook profile first in line for the People You May Know FB Friend suggestions.

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