Simon & Garfunkel: Cecilia
I was 19 years old. I have discovered sex, music, booze, how to fail without crumbling to dust, and the northern lights. I’ve also learned there’s no romance to tragedy.
A small group of people sang this a-capella, to memorialize a girl I didn’t know, and they brought me to bitter, embarrassed [...]
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Breaking my heart
Something in the way
Nirvana is still all about transitions for me: the end of high school, the beginning of college, a friend’s suicide followed by Kurt Cobain’s. But not necessarily about sadness.
Here we are now, under the table in a break room. We’ve been studying, but end up under there for no good reason, each with one [...]