In the summer of 76 my mom built a cool van with a crazy interior (shag carpet and all!) and we took a cross-country road trip. The destination was LA and we were going to meet our dad for the first time in 12 years.

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Navigating the new order in high school was a big challenge. I didn't have a clan. I wasn't a jock or a greaser. Where did I fit in?

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WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence.

In the summer of 1975 when we were off at summer camp for the second time, my mom and Virginia were assaulted on a camping trip.

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In the summer of 74 my Uncle Gianni got married. Then he headed off on his honeymoon... with his mom and all us kids! Big mistake.

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As soon as I discovered the joys of kissing it became a brave new world! Camp socials, the dances at the end of the week, were the stuff of dreams. So much drama! I loved it. At the end of the episode I sing the camp song that we wrote during our days of being grounded. It's a gem.

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This one year, at riding camp... I went to summer camp for the first time in the summer after I turned 14. There had been a rash of kidnappings in Italy, starting with the famous Getty kidnapping, and my grandfather didn't want to put us at risk, so my mom and my aunt found us a new diversion.

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To read more about the Getty kidnapping: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a9173861/john-paul-getty-kidnapping/

One of our winter traditions was the annual family ski trip just after Christmas. I never became better than intermediate, but there was that one time on the double black diamond...

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Shakespeare came into my life right at the time when I was starting to explore my own sexuality. I knew there was something to that language that held the keys to discovering more about this. I couldn't get enough!

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My mom came back into my life when I was 11 1/2, and with her came a slew of confusing circumstances. I didn't really understand what it meant to be a lesbian, and I had no other examples around me to serve as models.

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In the year that I was 11 many things happened to change my life in big ways. I was starting to learn about boundaries, sexuality and what it meant to be "cool." I wasn't.

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