Committing to paper

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 118331

It was a wildly disorganized process. She started by bulldozing through the roughest outline of Fred's life, from start to finish, filling about half the first journal, and then went back to address a variety of important events and write down all the finer details she still retained. As the days passed, she lost focus more and more, and would slip into tangentially related notes, like thoughts on those memories based on the medieval history class she'd taken, or elements of Fred's family life or travels leading her to comment lengthily on her own respective experiences.

After about a week, she had quite forgotten the original purpose of this project, and just kept on journaling.

And kept on journaling.

Her life wasn't too easy, but writing things down helped her to keep things straight. To envision a future, anyway. And writing "Dear diary" at the beginning of every entry almost made it feel like she had a friend.

Classes were going pretty well. She was shy and unpopular, but her parents seemed pleased with her academic achievements, when they had the time and energy to talk to her after their own long workdays.

She kept on journaling, nearly every day. Her bookshelf slowly filled with them, and she used her allowance to buy new ones as needed.

  1. Eventually a couple other girls started talking to her, and Nancy, desperate for friendship, invited them over to her house. When they saw her shelf full of journals...
  2. A couple of weeks after she graduated from middle school, and was set to head off to high school, one of her teachers reached out to her with a strange, confusing message...
  3. When Nancy was fifteen, she was in a terrible car accident. While undergoing surgery, she had a very strange dream...
  4. Nancy was eighteen when there was a house fire. When all was said and done, she and her parents went to see the extent of the damage. And, in place of the shelf holding her journals...
  5. Nancy kept journaling, barely ever rereading, for many years. On the day of her twenty-first birthday, just before she started studying at a prestigious law school, she decided to revisit her first few entries...

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