Summertime Sadness

Summertime Sadness

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This isn't the story you think it is. Sure, it begins as they always do. Girl meets boy. Boy is cute. But this boy wasn't like the others. I met him at the county fair; handsome and rugged, but he was dangerous too. He spent his life on the carnival circuit, never staying anywhere long enough to call home. As for me, I wanted to be anywhere else. Anywhere but home. So I followed him down the rabbit hole, into a world without rules or consequences, and I fell in love with him for his heart, his soul, and everything he was. And then something happened that changed everything. It was as if I was a passenger on a roller coaster about to derail from the tracks. I could do nothing but watch as my carefully crafted life fell apart. What should have been my happily ever after turned into something else. And what began as a summer of reinvention turned into a summer of sadness. If it seems as though I'm being vague, I am. I told you, this isn't the story you think it is. ***For Mature Readers***
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It's summer - the end of my first year of college. And I am home again, more than a little worse for the wear. College hadn't gone how I had expected it to go. After two years of the grind to get in, I thought I would find the kind of magic I saw in American high school movies, which I had been denied of in school - late nights, parties, wild adventures with whacky best friends, romance.... everything one is told is supposed to happen in one's teenage years. After two years of watching my classmates grow up and enter this world, I thought it was my turn, now. I thought my college life would be like a coming-of-age movie. But in reality? It wouldn't make a good story, of any kind - not even a sad one. The only thing I found were shiftless friends, stifling academic pressure and heartbreak. So now I was home - a little bruised, a little broken. A few dreams in shards around my feet. Turns out, I needn't have worried. The summer that followed changed my life. The summer of - after a hectic, stressful year - nothing at all. Nothing, and yet - everything.

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