Getting lost in my teenage diaries and all my former selves

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“Hi, today we have decided that there is no longer a group. We feel really guilty that we were bitches . If only we had not had the group in the first place. But from half of year seven to the end of year nine, there was a group; a group of friends who laughed. chatted and hung out, a group of young teenagers who did everything together, a group that started out with 10 members and finally ended with none (well maybe three), a group who have changed and grown up. It’s sad that all those things we were meant to do together when we were older won’t happen but things change. Life goes on, a chapter in my life has closed.”
- Me, aged 14 in 1999

Oh to be 14 and this melodramatic again! I’ll be honest I was struggling to come up with anything to talk about today (hello week three of lockdown!) and then suddenly had an idea which involved me having to go through boxes in my cellar. Hours later and I am now knee deep in teenage diaries, reliving some of the funniest and most painful moments of …