a lot can happen in one day…
The date is Friday, October 7, 1983.
Gas is $1.16 per gallon, the first Black Woman is crowned Miss USA, over 2,736 Americans have been killed by Aids so far, The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” continues to top the singles charts, a Soviet military officer just averted a nuclear war by identifying a U.S. missile attack as a false alarm, Cheech and Chong’s third film Still Smokin’ is probably still playing at drive-ins, and fifteen-year-old Matthew Van Der Boot is simply trying to survive another day of sophomore year in high school.
Directions:
Continue reading until you reach a heading marked “CHOOSE.” Select an answer, discover where it leads, read, repeat.
Note:
You can only move forward. If you want to change your answer you will need to return to the beginning. No cheating. Keep your eyes on your own paper. You may begin.
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The Misadventures of Matthew Van Der Boot is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental … no matter how many times you ask.