Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park

A personal essay in which writer Mabel Rosenheck considers her nostalgia for a key time in her life: the summer of 2003, when she was a young, depressed adult attending the Surf & Skate music festival in Asbury Park with friends in a similar emotional space, whom she’d met on the internet.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 28, 2017
Length: 19 minutes (4,918 words)