Daylight Saving, Issue 2: Part 1.1

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Panel 1: We start with a shot of Brie touching onto a piece of beach hours after we left them in Issue 1, exhausted by the ordeal; the suitcases out in front of them as a kind of makeshift raft as they swim.

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(Brie)

"I officially touched the shore just before 1 A.M. on January 1st. It's probably not an important fact in the grand scheme, but I thought it was a funny way to start this type of Personal Log."

Panel 2: Mx. Benoit's fast asleep face first a short time later on a park bench with their luggage in the foreground of the shot. You can see some drunk revellers in the background, too busy in their own celebrations to notice them.

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(Cont., Brie)

"Anyway, after a decent 7 hours sleep on a metal bench..."

Panel 3: The morning rises with the young person in the same position, slowly waking up as the scene calms down after the previous night's frivolity.

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(Cont., Brie)

"...I set off to find food and a place in the City and start the First Stanza."

Panel 4: At a bus stop, Brie summons a $5 bill from the top of the $1 billion debit card as the front of an MTA bus drives toward their position.

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(Cont., Brie)

"It was here that I discovered, to my absolute joy, the card still worked through the time travel process. A fact that was so personally satisfying that it made the few days of searching for suitable lodgings seem...less annoying than it probably would, under normal circumstances."

Panel 5: Inside the bus a short time later, they look around at the other passengers and the city buzzing by in their own personal thought train.

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(Cont., Brie)

"Those days did provide some very nice people watching. In Mom's journals and the history books on the whole, they described people in this era as boisterous and loud and wasteful, so caught up in their own ego to recognize the damage they were doing to themselves and their planet."

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(Cont., Brie)

"From what I've seen, there are definitely plenty of examples to justify the declaration."

Panel 6: Brie glances down a few minutes later, in a mode of comfort, at their mom's old notebook.

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(Cont., Brie)

"Along with a landscape and air around me that is (although better than G-City) far less...pleasant to the nose than I hoped."

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Panel 1: Snapshot of the pages in question, highlighting some of the big world events that had taken place in 1998 and 1999 (to better blend in, in case of interaction with other native-time people) like the Good Friday Agreement, Clinton's impeachment, the birth of Google, Columbine, etc.

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(Cont., Brie)

"I remembered my first impressions of the era was that it was a thoroughly messy, wasteful time that focused so much energy on the wrong things instead of the right. And so far, there's still truth to that initial point."

Panel 2: The page flips and we see weathered photos of a Furby and Spongebob Squarepants with the words "How did these things exist?!" in Brie's handwriting.

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(Cont., Brie)

"But there's also another level neither my mom or the venerable historians of old put down of this- a heart within the gray and superficial."

Panel 3: Closer to mid-morning, after stepping off the bus closer to a residential area, we see Brie people watching as they continue to get the lay of the proverbial land.

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(Cont., Brie) "At least enough to provide some interesting color to the black and white I read in high school."

Panel 4: We see a young family passing by a few moments later on their way to Disneyland- loud and somewhat chaotic (at least when it comes to their 3 year old), but also brimming with hope.

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(Cont., Brie)

"Bits of joy and hope..."

Panel 5: Snapshot of a young man of 17 at a table inside the McDonald's, dressed in uniform and going through an SAT prep book before coming back to their shift.

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(Cont., Brie)

"Of trying to do better than the low hand life had given them..."

Panel 6: We move to the shot of an alley wall somewhere, showing a bit of Y2K graffiti just as some volunteers try to paint over it.

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(Cont., Brie)

"Even those trying to spread shreds of beauty amidst the brown and the gray and the noise that Los Angeles offers."