Taryn Thomas

And I feel when I was watching and reading their stories, it's just more so that that could have been anyone.

That could have been your kids.

That could have been my friends.

And the fact that their faces just look so ordinary, just smiling.

the stuff that they left behind from, like, baby bottles to strollers to, like, a calculator.

I just, like, I...

I was like, of course, like, you know, a Stanford student would bring a calculator to like a music festival.

And it's just like, I, I, that's why I really hope that more people can attend that Nova music festival exhibit if it comes to your area, because it like, it takes out of social media and like just, you know, reading about it, hearing about it and you get to visually see and like feel and pick up with your own hands, the artifacts of that day.

And it's just, yeah, it's just not the same at all.

I just like,

Like I said, like you take 20 minutes to go through this exhibit and you come out a different person and you just know that in your heart that.

It's yeah.

Go ahead.

Sorry.

Right.

So right after visiting the exhibit, I had planned to talk to my friends about this.

I immediately, I didn't talk to my friends.

I knew that-

Yeah, I didn't because I knew that like expressing any hesitancy or like doubts or questions was to like risk my social belonging and like risk my friend group.

What did that feel like?