Editor’s Note: The Following is an abridged version of a story written as part of a collaboration with The Globe and Mail. The story originally appeared on November 13, 2015.

My friends and I would always go to Joe’s to buy candy and to Aris Place for fries and gravy.

We felt so grown up, eating burgers at Aris on our lunch breaks. Sometimes it was even with boys or girls we liked.

That’s what we thought adults did.

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