September 1, 2011

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Oh my god, it’s September! All I can hear is that slow slide into winter. I hope it’s kind to me.

I’m seeing Bon Iver in less than a week! I’m so excited. I chatted with some really cool guy from Holland today. Other than that I don’t think I really did anything.

So it looks like I’m going to finish this journal before the first day of school. But the timing is still really close, so it’s fine. Oh dear journal! You’ve been so good to me, always there to listen whenever I needed someone. I’m so glad I chose you at the bookstore so long ago. You’ve been part of a big journey, my first year of high school, I hope you feel as special as you are.

Wow. I can’t believe I’m already in 10th grade. It’s so strange to me.

Dear Rosalie,

Don’t read this and feel ashamed of who you used to be. Phases are okay, especially at this age. Don’t ever be ashamed! Travel safely and wish me luck! Sincerely, Rosalie

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Born in 1996 Over the coming months, I'll be publishing several journal entries a day in chronological order. I began journaling in 2007, when I was eleven years old. Even then I wrote as though I were archiving my life, collecting details about my world. As I grew older, journaling became more of a description of my emotional world. I am an aspiring creative nonfiction writer who is producing very little since graduating college this Spring. But with this unusually thorough account of my entire adolescence, I feel as though I have been given a gift that has been under my nose this whole time. This is a practice in forgiveness and vulnerability. It is also a way to laugh at myself.

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