Diaries: No Way Out

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ashley’s Livejournal features the angsty outpourings of a teenager from the early 2000s living in Southwest Florida. Just like many who came of age at the time, she flushed feelings out into the anonymous online public. Looking back on these entries, Ashley tries to read into what was really happening beneath the surface.

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0:00.0	Hey Heart Listeners! If you're looking for a new podcast recommendation, I have to tell you
0:05.4	about the Kitchen Sisters present. They bring you sound rich stories of hidden
0:09.6	Kitchen's activist archivists, rogue librarians, girls, and the women they become.
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0:20.5	You'll get some things surprising in every episode. A proud member of the Radiotopia family,
0:25.6	the Kitchen Sisters present is available anywhere you find your podcasts and also at KitchenSisters.org.
0:31.6	From P.R.X's Radiotopia, this is Diaries by The Heart. I'm Caitlin Prest.
0:43.7	May 29, 2003. December 12, 1996. 5 22 69.
0:49.2	05 11 15.
0:55.2	Somewhere in the vast ocean of Web URLs, there's a diary that's locked by a password that's been forgotten.
1:04.0	Ashley's Live Journal is among the thousands of forgotten live journals floating online,
1:08.8	waiting for someone to find them. Anxity outpourings from the teenagers of the early 2000s,
1:15.6	flushing their private feelings out into the anonymous online public.
1:20.8	True to the spirit of a real diary, there was always the option to keep an entry truly private.
1:28.0	In Ashley's private entries, live the unfiltered thoughts and feelings of her teenage self.
1:34.1	You know, like, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
1:37.2	Thoughts and feelings that are as lost as the password she can't remember.
1:42.0	What remains are the public entries she wrote for any friend or stranger to stumble upon.
1:48.1	Looking back on these entries, Ashley tries to read into what was really happening beneath the surface.
2:02.7	You idiot kid, you don't have a clue. You ought to be proud that I'm getting good marks.
2:11.3	If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, I wish you're a liar.
2:15.2	A hopeer, a prayer, a magic being buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire,
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