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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.