At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.
My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.
I was a very isolated teenager.
I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.
I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.
I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.