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What I Did This Summer By Kate, Age Seventeen

This summer I saw my brother’s first home.  This summer I discovered that boxer dogs barely have any fur.  This summer I stumbled upon a free painting of a river.  This summer my siblings and I threw my parents a surprise party for their 25th anniversary.  This summer I heard stories about events that I’m too young to remember.  This summer I made grilled cheese and drank with coca cola in a beer glass.  This summer I trained two Pokémon teams and defeated the Elite Four each time-twice.  This summer I stressed over student loans.  This summer I level grinded until my eyes watered.  This summer I read numerous books in one sitting.  This summer I voted Ronmey 2102.  This summer I created a semi popular blog dedicated to a Scrubs character.  This summer I learned via the internet that I want Chris Carmack to be my new best friend.  This summer I joined a Hair Club with him.  This summer I killed invisible people in the parking lot.  This summer a 2 year old woke me asking me what my pillow pet was, and then she sat in my lap and asked me to hold her.  This summer I took part in a conversation about a sandwich with Tommy Siegel.  This summer I screamed a song about stars to the stars with a few friends as we lied on a picnic table.  This summer I questioned whether the stars were created to gaze at us.  This summer I tweeted a few celebrities.  They didn’t tweet back.  This summer I went to Boston on my own and everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.  This summer I attended college orientation and it was kind of horrible but at the same time got me really excited.  This summer I read books about the Middle East.  This summer I did myself a favor and found a way.  This summer I listened to Bright Romans.  This summer I got my first cell phone.  This summer I realized that I few people to text on it.  This summer I fell in love with fictional boys from Chick Lit novels.  This summer I read more than one book on theatre, lesbians, and road trips and combinations thereof.  This summer I finally got a debit card.  This summer I missed my chance to pet a ginger kitty.  This summer I smelled the great works of Eeks.  This summer I square danced in a book store.  This summer I fell in love with Americone Dream.  This summer  I shopped.  A lot.  This summer I worked.  Not enough.  This summer I hid in a basement from an imaginary tornado.  This summer I turned my blog into one of those fancy blogs with tags.  This summer I watched the sunset in the same place two nights in a row.  This summer I spent two days roaming Church Street and sleeping on an air mattress.  This summer I cried over Pictionary, or lack thereof.  This summer I tried lavender lemonade.  This summer I stared at water.  This summer I spent an incredible amount of time with my sister.  This summer I cuddle with my dog every night that I could.  This summer I listened to the same mix tape about 27 times in a row.  This summer I had a really awkward concert experience.  This summer a waitress told me that it looked like “an animal had attacked” my dinner.  This summer I escaped the cheating world of GeekSquad.  This summer I fell in love with Delta Rae.  This summer I pieced together Ben Thornewill’s love life.  This summer I was traumatized by My Immortal Kidz Bop version.  This summer I heard about LARPing and I’m still not sure I get it.  This summer I was falsely accused of being a hipster blog.  I even got a tag for it.  This summer I gave relationship advice.  This summer I hunted for Cryogonal with Bethany.  This summer Bethany and I performed a synchronized swimming routine.  We were flawless.  This summer I also invited Bethany over to trade Pokémon and then we did everything but that.  This summer I was given sass at a Starbucks so now I am boycotting the whole establishment.  This summer I went to Sonic for the first time.  This summer I spent all my mother’s money on Target.  This summer I stayed up all night listening to Billie Piper and I don’t know how proud of that I am.  This summer I played that song so loud because I wanted to.  This summer I smoked fire.  This summer I hugged Tanner Wilson shirtless which isn’t actually uncommon at all but I just love it when that happens.  This summer I bonded with my dog which is a miracle in itself.  This summer I rewatched.  A lot.  This summer my debit card was denied.  This summer I accidently grabbed an XL off clearance when I was told it would be free.  This summer I learned how to do a lot of Adult Things by myself.  This summer I fucked up my internet in attempts to watch the Doctor Who premiere, then had like 3 panic attacks until I finally figure out how to fix it without having to admit to any one why my internet was broken.  This summer I went to Meet Me on Main a lot.  This summer I consequently fell in love with strawberry pancakes.  This summer I spent an afternoon lounging in a park with Jess Rand and even with the bugs crawling up my legs it was really really wonderful.  This summer I instagramed my first picture and it was of Jess.  This summer I found a banana peel worth $5.24.  This summer I debated the pronunciation of “Foucault.”  This summer I had my haircut by a woman who looks just like Eve Myles.  This summer I uncomfortably witnessed my father flirting with women.  This summer one of those women happened to get her hair cut right next to me.  This summer my last shift was a really awkward 4 hour shift and it was just really awkward.  This summer I made a blog about the week everyone was in school when I wasn’t.  This summer I would go to sleep with kids were going to school and wake up well after they had returned home.  This was odd and quite shocking to me.  This summer I got a sunburn from a very tiny car with very open windows.  This summer I told off some idiot who tried to insult me for reading during the summertime.  This summer I shared many Woman At Reception experiences.  This summer I learned how to do laundry hoorah.  This summer I calmed a panic attack by watching Phineas and Ferb.  This summer I healed.  This summer I was creepily represented as a frog.  Sorry I know you won’t understand that sentence.  This summer I fell in love with Slow Club, among many other musical artists.