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Don't ever change a book I never wanted to make: a true story about some paper I thought I set aflame.

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| March 01, 2007 | Neault, Michael R. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Visual Studies Workshop. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

That poor guy up there is not me. Nor is the one on the opposite page. But they both capture something about high school that I can't really articulate with words.

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I had an idea for a book I thought would be fun. The book would be a compendium of notes written to people in their high school yearbooks. I even had a tentative title: Boy, We Sure Were Dumb. This would be especially fun because I would be revisiting other people's pasts and avoiding my own. That was not to be the case.

After making a few phone calls to friends, I realized that not everyone had lugged their yearbooks with them after moving away from home. In fact, no one had. Soliciting notes would be a lengthy process. It would probably take many days, if not weeks. That amount of time far exceeded my attention span. I wanted the book Now. And then I realized if I wanted the book now, I would have to find my own yearbooks.

My chances of finding my yearbooks were slimmer than a shadow. Late in high school I went through several purging sessions. My agenda was to erase the symbols of my youth. So I tore down all the posters in my room, trashed my photographs, incinerated six paper bags of notes and then tried to rid myself of my yearbooks. You might call it-memorabilia-cide. But thanks to my mother, and ...

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