"The Cardigans: baby blue nail polish, Tamagotchi bans, buying deodorant for the first time and smelling all the options, trying to make your room look like a dELiA*s catalog, convincing your mom to let you use Sun-In, jelly shoes, gel pens, having a crush on a boy with a floppy middle-parted bowl cut, having a birthday party at a bowling alley, amassing bracelets/keychains, sticker earrings, Goldfish crackers in a Ziploc bag, dingy white cotton spaghetti-strap tops from GapKids, imagining your first kiss, comparing what shampoo brand/smell you use, practicing bubble letters."

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Thank you for this time capsule. Really, all of these are spot-on. But this? This is the Hard Candy jelly ring around the neck of my bottle of Trailer Trash (Seventeen said it was Dennis Rodman’s favorite). 1997 was a good year.