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I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

I like vampires.

Vampires are a genre now.

One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.

I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.

I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.