the best book is a yearbook? discuss.

A Sam and Max comic mentions yearbooks, and suggests that one should trade yearbooks with someone of the same age, so you'll realize, "hey, we had that guy too, but his name was Trent" or whatever. Today, a friend and I tried this. She'd grown up in a different kind of town (not the suburbs), at a much smaller high school 2000 miles away from mine, but it was so true! The only significant difference I saw was in the messages - my suburban classmates were much more verbose, and tended to write things like, "here are some phrases to remind you of this year: puppies are cute, dancing in the rain, bo balli!, eating the whole pie, the entourage", for half a page.
So, I encourage you to do this. My friend and I realized that the uniqueness of our teen years wasn't unique at all. We both started wearing black, and listening to the Cure, and liking guys with floppy haircuts at about the same time. And as we looked at both high schools' yearbooks, we remembered scandals, and "oh, yeah, that guy's dead now", and all of our crushes. It's fun, and a good late-fall activity.