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I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

When I was young, I was everywhere.

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.

I was a slightly geeky kid.

I grew up in the suburbs.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.