Heather Demetrios

This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.

I don't like seeing myself on camera." But that's not it--that sounds shallow, like I'm worried I'll look fat or something. "It's like somebody is walking on my grave. TV immortalizes you. The episodes are what my family would watch if I died.

After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.

A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.

My life was being planned in sentences that started with 'We' instead of 'I', yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world.