This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

My name is Melissa Lee and originally I'm from Hastings on Hudson, New York.

A small town I suppose you have to make your own fun.

Everybody makes their own fun if you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun, it's entertainment.

I guess the big activity would be walking downtown

after school and you could hang out by the wall and watch people

that you knew go by. So not a lot going on in Hastings on Hudson New York.

It's about two square miles but it's right outside New York City so it's sort of like

you know there's a lot out there to do but there's not actually a lot to do

right where I was. Besides people watching, Melissa and her friends would also collect

geodes. We did collect geodes yes. You know about geodes right?

Break your own geodes. The rocks are brown and won't be on the outside but when you smash them apart

inside would be some crystal on structures and you have no idea from the outside what you're

getting. You kind of take a chance on it that inside you've got something great.

Usually Melissa and her friend Liz would buy a few geodes at the store downtown

and take them home and smash them apart with a hammer but one day when Melissa was 13.

We were too impatient and we just had to know what was inside. There was a parking lot nearby

with an apartment building and we decided to throw it against the side of the wall

as hard as we could and hope that it would crack open that way.

And I think that was the first time that we had tried to open them that way without a hammer

just by throwing it. So I threw mine a few times and finally it did crack open against the wall

and Liz kept throwing her as in it wouldn't crack open. There was only one little window in this

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