That May, Fortune packed her young family into the car and made the 3½-hour drive northeast from Toronto to stay with her parents.
The journals were a time machine back to her adolescence, spent in the tiny cottage town of Barry’s Bay, Ont. She was struck by the complicated relationship dynamics, how she and her friends struggled to communicate – and, most of all, the deep desire she had had for a real connection with someone who truly understood her. Stuffed within the pages were notes passed in class, a letter she wrote to a crush but never sent, a message from a best friend breaking up with her. There were 13 of them, stored in two shoeboxes. She decided to dig out her old teenage journals.
In those first tense of weeks of the pandemic back in March, 2020, when so much about the future was unknown, Canadian magazine editor Carley Fortune was feeling nostalgic for the past.
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