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✨Before I Fall Page 1. PROLOGUE
They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me. To be honest, I’d always thought the whole final-moment, mental life-scan thing sounded pretty awful. Some things are better left buried and forgotten, as my mom would say. I’d be happy to forget all of fifth grade, for example (the glasses-and-pink-braces period), and does anybody want to relive the first day of middle school? Add in all of the boring family vacations, pointless algebra classes, period cramps, and bad kisses I barely lived through the first time around… The truth is, though, I wouldn’t have minded reliving my greatest hits: when Rob Cokran and I first hooked up in the middle of the dance floor at homecoming, so everyone saw and knew we were together; when Lindsay, Elody, Ally, and I got drunk and tried to make snow angels in May, leaving person-sized imprints in Ally’s lawn; my sweet-sixteen party, when we set out a hundred tea lights and danced on the table in the backyard; the time Lindsay and I pranked Clara Seuse on Halloween, got chased by the cops, and laughed so hard we almost threw up—the things I wanted to remember; the things I wanted to be remembered for. But before I died I didn’t think of ...👇👇👇
🔺 to flash - промелькнуть, пронестись, промчаться
🔺 buried |ˈberid| - похороненный, захороненный, погруженный
🔺 to relive |rɪˈliːv| - снова пережить
🔺 period cramps - боли (спазмы, судороги) в период критических дней
🔺 to hook up - начать встречаться
🔺 person-sized imprints - отпечатки, следы размером с человека
🔺 a tea light - короткая свеча
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Sincerely yours, @englishpockettutor
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