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Tilly Norwood Was My High School Best Friend

I can’t believe how famous she’s become. What a red carpet!

3 min readOct 5, 2025

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outdoor tunnel of large triangles, about 12 feet tall. at night, they’re illuminated, and there’s a red carpet underneath. a crowd of people walk through the triangles on this red carpet. in the background are the illuminated skyscrapers of a big city.
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When I saw Tilly Norwood hit the red carpet in the headlines, I couldn’t believe it. Tilly! I knew her!

We were close for a short period. Best friends, I’d say, though only for a year.

They say false memories are the most poignant and the hardest to let go of. But those experts are wrong — or how is it, then, that my most real memory is so exquisite?

Tilly Norwood and I walking to band practice in the snow.

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person in a sweater carrying a trombone through the woods. the ground has a few inches of snow. the person is perhaps a bit underdressed, and pulling their hat over their face so you can’t see them.
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Sneaking a beer in the woods.

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five young friends toast each other with drinks by a campfire in the dark
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I can’t tell you how incredible it was.

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young people driving in a convertible, throwing their hands up in the air in joy, including the driver
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Lots of people are claiming to know Tilly Norwood now that her star is rising.

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Bogotá, Colombia. tuckerlieberman.com

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