Invincible Summer

The Plague Years in Film and Memory

“It was group of despised, gorgeous, terrified and terribly, terribly young people who looked death and society in the face and said no, we will not go quietly into that good night. Save us or give us the means to save ourselves. I have never met people since (I’d say before, too, except for me, I was so young, there wasn’t much of a before) so committed to staying in the land of the living. It was an assertion of basic human dignity and that fierce will to live in the face of hatred and the neglect that was its vicious stepchild. And it helped change the drug approval and research process in this country, giving the entire world medicines that have saved millions of lives years before they might otherwise have been available or discovered. That is a fact.”

The Evolution of A 20-Something's Alcohol Consumption

New Concepts Learned:

• Having “memories” from that night

• The art of coherent conversation

• Faux-six figure income spending

• Holier-than-thou deliverance of knowledge of cheese/wine pairings to peers

• How to forgive and love again