

Not many people know this about me, but every summer I would go to my mom's friend's summer house. It was a dream house, right on the water, a place where we'd watch old black and white movies from the public domain exclusively, without explanation. When we were younger we'd wear backwards caps and braces, because we were younger then. But then one summer everything changed. I found myself caught in the middle of a love triangle with two brothers - yikes! - I couldn't choose who I should be with, so instead I retreated into myself, locking my bedroom door and listening to big phat beats and distorted synths. It was, and always will be, the summer I turned gritty.