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As I flip through my high school yearbook, I’m met with pages of scribbled signatures from people I spent nearly every day alongside for four years. From late nights anxiously studying for exams to football games so cold I could see my breath in the air, I navigated my messy and confusing teenage years with the same people I stood next to in the stands at graduation.

I’m beginning to reckon with the fact that these memories will only continue to fade. Eventually, I’ll forget what shirt I wore that day, what kind of flowers I got after the ceremony and what song I listened to on the drive home.

Four months later, books and papers clutter my dorm desk as I fidget with the navy and orange lanyard I bought during my first week of........

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