Found: Boy-Crazy Poet (And Other Things) In My Attic – LBF
There’s nothing quite like cleaning out your attic and stumbling on your former self: an earnest, boy-crazy teenager who couldn’t get a date to the junior prom. (True and, no,…
Proof you can *almost* die of embarrassment. #behindtheselaughingeyes
There's nothing quite like cleaning out your attic and stumbling on your former self: an earnest, boy-crazy teenager who couldn't get a date to the junior prom. (True and, no, I'M NOT OVER IT.)
Anyway, here are some of the gems I discovered, including a mortifying poem I wrote during some sort of fit of sadness, while I probably listened to Tiffany or Debbie Gibson.
File under: An age I never want to revisit.
Watch Lung Boy's dramatic reading of said poem (and me cringing the entire time) here:
Or listen here:
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My best friends in high school aka Charlie's Angels. #nerds
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Just me, strangling a naked doll. Typical Saturday in the '70s.
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My best friends in high school (see wedding photo). This was a birthday present. #nerds
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My Michael Jackson glove earrings. JEALOUS?
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When you think you threw out the record player but it was in the attic! #winning #jimmyhoffamightbeupthere
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Proof you can *almost* die of embarrassment. #behindtheselaughingeyes
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Rough draft of the lyrics to "The Rose" made for a high school boyfriend. MAD CALLIGRAPHY SKILLS+ LOUSY TASTE IN MUSIC= LIFETIME OF EMBARRASSMENT.
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The Rikki-Tikki-Tavi VHS tape that Dave Falcone WILL NOT GET RID OF. (We don't have a VCR.)
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Dave Falcone's reason for loving Diane Lane. Also a VHS tape we can't watch BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A VCR.
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This is Mrs. Claus. She lived in my attic for years. She looks like she's a relative. I checked for a pulse.
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This is my cheering uniform from freshman and sophomore year. Pays to be chubby in high school: things fit later!
