- bradenton, florida, ringing in the y2k with my mother in my grandparent's house in a senior citizen park, the only ones awake. we ate grapes as the ball fell then ran outside and screamed into the dark and silence while everyone else slept
- pasadena, california, in a friend of the family's house who has since passed away, talking to my sister erin on the phone and wishing she was there with the rest of the family
- chicago, illinois for the last two years and the best two new years ever. going to the lakefront to watch the fireworks with a bottle of disarrono, drinking it gone and then writing our wishes for the new year and stuffing them inside, throwing it into lake michigan.
- chicago, illinois, part two. staying at a house in lincoln park and pretending to be rich and ritzy with braxton. meeting my sister allison's ravinder and going to the margot show. meeting up with some of the people i love the most at clarke's and slipping whiskey into my coke while we laughed and screamed and drew the attention of everyone in the place. looking at puppies on the internet and having braxton look at me and propose and me tell him to wait but him drunkenly insisting. i always wanted to get proposed to in lincoln park.
- kokomo, indiana. the new years eve to end all others. at josh cox's apartment after i had just broken up with corey and feeling like this whole world lay in front of me. drinking canadian whiskey with jeb, telling megan to stop destroying herself, playing strip spin the bottle, and being with braxton for the first time and feeling like things could be right again.
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