[00:03.22]My three best friends and I planned a weeklong trip
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[00:10.11]For our spring break during our senior year of high school
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[00:19.57]We were undeterred and free and grown
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[00:24.20]We left before the sun rose and began the first leg
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[00:35.64]To Virginia Beach for a couple of days
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[00:42.61]Before heading out to camp on the outer banks
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[00:51.51]When we arrived we spent the first night playing video games
[00:59.55]We brought from home in our hotel room
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[01:09.33]In the morning we ventured out into the world
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[01:16.56]And wandered around until late at night
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[01:22.40]Like spectators or ghosts
[01:27.94]As artificial lights burned brighter than daylight
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[01:35.64]The boardwalk was teeming with youth
[01:40.69]Brashly claiming adulthood like it was the last day on earth
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[01:48.85]We retreated back to our hotel exhausted
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[01:56.43]The phone in our room rang out at an ungodly hour
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[02:01.69]When only bad things are on the other end
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[02:07.54]I answered and gave it to Danny
[02:10.63]So he could hear his brother passed away
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[02:17.10]He dropped the phone and bolted out into the hall
[02:21.99]Blind with grief
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[02:24.13]We ran out after him unsure of what to do
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[02:33.42]He threw off our embrace and escaped down the stairs to the beach
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[02:40.66]And haunted the shore of the Atlantic for hours and hours
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[02:50.62]I waited and watched from a nearby park bench
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[02:57.47]When he came back we got into the car and drove the twelve hours back home
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[03:08.29]And made it just in time for the funeral