Dear Older Me

Noelle lives in a fantastical world, created through her own imagination. Once her boyfriend breaks up with her over text at the end of her freshman year of college, she finds herself wallowing in tears, not understanding why she wasn't good enough and how she could be thrown away. She cries for weeks while attempting to rebuild her home life for the summer with an estranged best friend, Bailey, watching the love between parents fill jealousy inside herself, and finding refuge by platonically confiding in Bailey's older brother, Nate. Her perception of reality is the world will stop to wallow in her misery and mistreatment in love, without considering her family and friends around her don't have as perfect of lives and loves as they seem, particularly her mother. She learns by reading a journal written by her mother at the time of her major breakup at 21 years old that history does repeat itself, whether we'd like to think it doesn't.