Tonight We’re Going To PTSD Like It’s 1999

By Lea Grover

Don’t worry, I won’t hurt U, I just want to have some fun.

With three and a half hours remaining in 1998, there was only one song to play, and we played it. Prince’s “1999” boomed from the stereo speakers, not on a loop, but intermittently, mixed with Spice Girls and Eminem — the sounds of the era. At 14, it was my first real party. There were no…