The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

And things were back to normal except we were just friends.

Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.

You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose.

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.