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the party with Corey and another small group to smoke marijuana and run around outside. The next morning, Archie's and Sierra's morning gym classes find Corey's dead body in the gym, having committed suicide by hanging himself from a basketball hoop. The gym teachers frantically direct their students back into the locker room (and scold Archie for pointing his camcorder at the scene), while a mutual friend of Archie and Corey cries out and tries in vain to lift Corey's body down, later blaming Archie for Corey's death and punching Archie in the stomach on school grounds. Sierra drives away from the school in her car, and Archie jumps in her passenger seat. While driving, she reveals that her brother Shane fatally crashed his car on purpose, that she kept Shane's suicide note to her while their parents burned theirs, and that their parents have been falsely telling her that his death was an accident ever since. She nearly crashes the car with both of them in it, but changes her mind at the last minute. However, Sierra dumps Archie for reneging on their suicide pact. When Archie returns home, he finds his parents searching his studio again and they interrogate him about Corey's suicide. In an attempt to level with him, they admit that Archie was an unplanned pregnancy. Once he has his studio to himself, Archie discovers that Corey borrowed Archie's camera on the night of the party to record a suicide note addressed to Archie.
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Hemingway and Tim Halligan) run into her room and, at first glance, falsely assume Archie facilitated her suicide. Paramedics show up and narrowly manage to revive Sierra, thanks to Archie's early 911 call and knowledge of how many pills she took. Archie and Sierra later attend Corey's funeral, and Archie shares a freeform poem that Jesse Gabriel Vargas recorded about her during his visit. Contrary to a cliché happily-ever-after ending, Archie states that Sierra began dating someone else upon going to college, while Archie remains single and an avid filmmaker.
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connect with him, no matter what place or what country they’re in. They feel that sh** that he’s going through, and they’re living it. So they started giving that feedback and saying "I’m an Archie because I’m depressed and I hate my family, or I’m creative and I love making art but people don’t understand it." I’ve been connected to the issue of suicide for six or seven years, and I know that what kids need to hear more than anything is that they’re not alone. That ended up being our message with IAmAnArchie: “Yeah, I’m scared, I’m depressed, I’m obsessed, I’m whatever, but I’m also an Archie because there’s a million
Archies and they’re all going through crazy s***.”
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