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But, as the glittering sphere that fell into Times Square carried promises of another year forward, I’m often thinking backwards, always reckoning deeply with moments from my past where I encountered certain kinds of magic I still can’t properly articulate the electricity of.ĭespite the proto- meme John Cusack vehicle named for the year, which conjured oversaturated worries to mass audiences three years prior, there was something so alive and beautiful in the air which swirled above our heads in 2012.
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Some months prior, on New Year’s Eve 2011, I wrote “WE WON’T DIE IN 2012” backwards on a piece of notebook paper, taped it to my Big Bang Theory “Bazinga” t-shirt, snapped a bathroom mirror selfie before Dick Clark’s countdown, and posted it on Facebook in hopes a crush would like it. I was chubby, freshly weaned-off ADHD medication, sludging way too much gel into my hair, desperately yearning for someone to post a romantic “TBH” on my Facebook wall, and a proud believer that Drake’s Take Care was the best album ever made. In the summer of 2012, I’d just finished junior high school.