Although she was swimming, I knew she was soaring. To see her comfortable in her skin and happy with who she was at that moment was so important to me.

When I was in fourth grade, I got in trouble for discussing how fast my body would decompose if I was stabbed.

I begin to realize my relationship is over when my boyfriend starts cleaning his gun in our apartment.

When I saw a UFO, I was 18 and it was the night before prom.

“I was around the same age as young Ellie when ‘Contact’ came out. The way she so clearly carries her childhood self with her made adulthood legible; it made time seem like less of an unknowable straight line and something more like a circle. Watching it as an adult I have that same feeling.”