Two years ago, you were younger and lovelier. Your childhood was closer to you than it is now, and you had just seen Beyoncé’s Super Bowl halftime show instead of some other Super Bowl halftime show.

Also, a series of Snapchats were compiled into a short video and tweeted by Riverside Polytechnic High School student Josh Holz. The Snapchats were of his friend Daniel Lara, who was wearing sneakers. “Damn!” he was always yelling at Daniel. And in one instance, “Damn, Daniel! Back at it again with the white Vans.” He sort of laughs in the middle of that sentence, the kind of failure-to-keep-composure that’s specific to the time in your life when you’re a teenager and you have basically no responsibilities other than laughing and, I don’t…

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