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QUADRENNIAL CHRONICLES
Four years
Captured
In books
Hardcover
Leatherbound
Memories
Glossy pages
Technicolor
Moments in time
Faces of teachers
Student visages
So fresh, yet so stale
Glee club, chess club, French club
Basketball and baseball
Community service
Seniors in their finery
Futures of gold in their eyes
Glamour shots in grimy times
These books are annual chronicles
Depicting high highs and low lows
Milestones en route to the real world...
and yet I was never able to get a single copy of those books, and I never took a single picture.
Does this mean that my graduation is void?
Though I wanted to be immortalized, though I craved four years worth of evidence, financially they were out of my reach.
Does this mean that I spent four years for nothing?
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QUADRENNIAL CHRONICLES
Four years
Captured
In books
Hardcover
Leatherbound
Memories
Glossy pages
Technicolor
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It seems like only yesterday
We were just starting out
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Our hearts with doubt
We walked
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