Michael Ellick

Or am I free because this isn't my timeline?

And some part of me is just not...

Wired in.

So, you know, there's a lot of little instances that come out in my memory.

You know, band class, lunch with friends, realizing all the insane things we did.

Like, for a while, we were doing this role-playing game in the library during lunch.

And, you know, I had to pass because I didn't remember what my character was.

I didn't remember... You know, there's a lot of little moments.

When I've told this story, what I kind of flash forward to is...

is starting to think about like, okay, how do I leave a trace for this?

So the friend of mine named Gordon, the guy who was in the backseat of the car who got hit with the seatbelt, he was still my friend.

We were lifelong friends.

And he was my friend then.

We were in the accident.

And to this day, we're really close.

He's like a brother.

And during the time in 2006 where this happened, he was either living—he was certainly living in New York at the time.

And there was off and again, on again that he was living with us.

But he was around, and I knew that.

And so at some point, I couldn't contain myself.