So tonight I have two stories to tell you, and they're great stories, but when I was thinking about how I would go about teasing the stories, like I do at the top of these episodes, I couldn't quite think of sort of what the connective tissue was between them.

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Okay, let's get both very good friends.

They were part of a bigger group of friends in their high school that sort of spent a lot of time together, but Rachel and Molly oftentimes were together by themselves quite a bit.

And the thing that sort of drew the two together and really sort of made them friends in the first place and also drew them to that bigger group was their shared love of goth culture.

So being goth, especially in the late 90s and early

2000s, if you were like a high school kid, basically meant you wore all black clothes, you had like

black, you know, nail polish, black lipstick, your hair is black. You sort of embraced all things

dark and macabre. Some people were genuinely very into sort of like the idea of

embracing the dark side of things. Other people just did it as like a fashion statement.

But in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was it was definitely a thing, certainly in America.

And Rachel and Molly were both very committed gotts, and they just sort of loved that whole vibe.

And one of the things that Rachel and Molly really liked to do as goth teenagers is they and their group of friends would go hang out in the local cemetery.

Now, at first, the reason they did this was actually to sort of be ironic.

You know, it's like they were known as the goth kids in their high school. And so the idea of them

hanging out in a cemetery just seemed kind of too on the nose. And so they went out there almost

like a joke, the whole group of them. But they found this cemetery was kind of a cool hangout spot,

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