Taryn Thomas

That could have been my friends.

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

And 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 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 um 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 that's true

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.

I was genuinely scared, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's just.

oftentimes it, that pressure to feel like you're one of the good ones and the, that you want to be like, like, I feel like nothing recruits more than wanting to be on the right side of history.