She’s Not on Facebook?

A photo booth in 1986. Hard to get much more throwback than that. I was thinking of this friend this week–the one making faces in the background. Making me laugh, always. I was thinking about all our antics, the stories we told (mostly to boys at parties), the ever-present Aqua Net, and in my case the horrid combination of baby blue, pink, and white eye shadow–frosted, naturally.

It’s a weird social world we live in. A few years ago I was missing my high school reunion. But then suddenly the c...