1. I was a senior in high school when it was taken.
2. It took me over an hour to apply the stage makeup required to make me to look this freaky.
3. My forehead was actually two inches taller than the Sears Tower.
4. It still is, actually.
5. At the time this photo was taken, I had a mind-numbing crush on a band geek named Doug.
6. It would go unrequited.
7. Ten minutes after this photo was taken, I became the victim of a violent crime.
8. This ballet headshot would later be used on a promotional poster for the ballet company of which I was a member.
9. The first day the poster was prominently displayed in my high school, someone scrawled “Itty Bitty Titty Committee” across my chest.
10. I don’t think I’d relive my senior year in high school if given the opportunity.
