It is prom season already. The high school near our house, Clarke Central High School, actually had its prom a couple of weeks ago, more than a month before graduation. I don't remember ours being that early. At Mattoon High School in 1993, prom felt like the end of everything, all we'd been building up to, the final realization that what we knew was fading away, that the clock was ticking faster and faster. Actually, I'm pretty sure that's 43-year-old Will Leitch superimposing his wistful sensibility on 17-year-old Will Leitch. 17-year-old Will Leitch was mostly just worried about girls and whether he was going to have to get his braces put back on again.
Volume 2, Issue 55: Normal American Kids
Volume 2, Issue 55: Normal American Kids
Volume 2, Issue 55: Normal American Kids
It is prom season already. The high school near our house, Clarke Central High School, actually had its prom a couple of weeks ago, more than a month before graduation. I don't remember ours being that early. At Mattoon High School in 1993, prom felt like the end of everything, all we'd been building up to, the final realization that what we knew was fading away, that the clock was ticking faster and faster. Actually, I'm pretty sure that's 43-year-old Will Leitch superimposing his wistful sensibility on 17-year-old Will Leitch. 17-year-old Will Leitch was mostly just worried about girls and whether he was going to have to get his braces put back on again.