Return to Valley X
The fabric of our lives is woven with the tales of defining adventures. The subjective nature of recollections may diverge from the facts, but story always trumps truth. Was the water really that cold on New Year’s Day? Was she really that into you? Was the snow really that deep?
Yes. To all of them. Because the gravity of a cornerstone memory should be given some room for exaggeration.
What if we were forced to reconcile the most poignant memories? What if one was asked to produce photographic evidence of the backflip off Le Rouge’s cabin into neck-deep powder? Of Chevalier’s car buried in feet of snow? From time to time, we are forced to return to the scene of our most heroic moments. It is at these intersections that we test our core beliefs.
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