🎄❤️ In 2024, I thought a lot about my first love
Between the ages of about 13 and 15, I loved Oasis. I knew their b-sides. I knew their birthdays. I entered a Daily Mirror competition and, inexplicably, won a lock of Liam Gallagher’s hair. I’d see adverts at the back of NME for VHS tapes put together by people who had recorded all their TV appearances and edited them together terribly – I’d buy them and I’d watch them obsessively. I guarded them with a ‘DO NOT TAPE OVER’ on the label, in marker pen. An ink that knew that my love would endure through all of time.
Or so I thought.
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That’s it for 2024. Thank you for reading and sharing the essays – maybe next year you should write one?
Wishing you happiness and peace.
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