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My three best friends and I planned a weeklong trip |
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For our spring break during our senior year of high school |
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We were undeterred and free and grown |
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We left before the sun rose and began the first leg |
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To Virginia Beach for a couple of days |
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Before heading out to camp on the outer banks |
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When we arrived we spent the first night playing video games |
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We brought from home in our hotel room |
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In the morning we ventured out into the world |
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And wandered around until late at night |
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Like spectators or ghosts |
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As artificial lights burned brighter than daylight |
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The boardwalk was teeming with youth |
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Brashly claiming adulthood like it was the last day on earth |
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We retreated back to our hotel exhausted |
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The phone in our room rang out at an ungodly hour |
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When only bad things are on the other end |
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I answered and gave it to Danny |
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So he could hear his brother passed away |
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He dropped the phone and bolted out into the hall |
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Blind with grief |
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We ran out after him unsure of what to do |
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He threw off our embrace and escaped down the stairs to the beach |
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And haunted the shore of the Atlantic for hours and hours |
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I waited and watched from a nearby park bench |
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When he came back we got into the car and drove the twelve hours back home |
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And made it just in time for the funeral |
