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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 Imagine you had a nightmare
00:04 where you had to relive your adolescence.
00:07 My memories shine almost like a diamond,
00:12 but not because I love them,
00:14 because I hate them.
00:17 When I was a teenager,
00:22 I would imagine myself falling in love
00:25 for all my crushes.
00:28 I was trying to be whatever they wanted me to be.
00:31 I was always just acting.
00:34 - Roll, please.
00:35 - Oh, hi, Joel.
00:37 - Uh, who's this?
00:38 - Oh, um.
00:39 (laughing)
00:39 - Cut.
00:40 (gunshot)
00:41 - I think of these recreations as like
00:43 an emotional exorcism.
00:45 - Are you lost?
00:46 - I sit there.
00:47 - I'm out of her seat.
00:48 - I am truly haunted by these things.
00:52 And one of the things that I can't get past
00:55 is why they still bother me.
00:57 (eerie music)
00:59 - The guy organizing the reunion posted this.
01:02 - Dress, Winter Park.
01:03 - This is like blood red, I'm gonna kill them all.
01:05 - Resentment red.
01:06 - Resentment red.
01:07 (laughing)
01:08 - Oh, God.
01:10 - The country club.
01:11 - I just feel like this is a huge mistake.
01:14 - Oh, don't make me go in there.
01:16 - I can understand being traumatized,
01:20 but why you continue all these years later
01:23 to allow them to have all this power over you
01:26 blows my mind.
01:28 - Why would I remember this for 25 years
01:30 if I didn't know then that it was that bad?
01:32 - The paradox of going back is to have to succumb
01:37 once again to that sense of yourself
01:39 as totally inconsequential.
01:42 So why on earth would I go back?
01:45 (dramatic music)
01:48 (air whooshing)
01:50 (air whooshing)
01:53 (air whooshing)
01:56 [BLANK_AUDIO]