What is this?

You have found Cornelia.

Season 3 Wild Boys.

A production of Campside TV.

Oh.

A heads up.

This show contains discussions of an eating disorder.

If you or someone you know is struggling with eating disorders, please listen with care.

In the summer of 2003, I was a teenager living in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada.

The town that I was born in.

I was working full time at a video rental place, which at the time was a line of work that existed.

That summer, I was learning how to drive stick.

I just got the cartilage pierced in my ear, and every morning upon waking up, I put on exactly three necklaces,

a shark's tooth, a hemp, and a pukashell.

For Sartorial reference, it's helpful to note that this was the same summer that the OC went on the air.

One night, after I shifted the video place, I met up with a friend at Kalamalka General Store,

which is sort of the center of the teenage universe in Vernon.

How we set up this rendezvous before either of us had cell phones as a complete mystery to me.

Did we email a day earlier, call each other's parents' landlines?

My imagination fails, but we managed it.

She showed up, I showed up.

We bought slushies and potato wedges and crossed the street to the beach.

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