Princess of Doom

Featured (left to right): Me, Nathan Tanner, Nathan Kingree, ?, Amanda Irwin, Erin Tanner.

One of my friends in Delaware, Erin, recently scanned this picture of us. It was taken on July 24th, 1994 in her kitchen in Seaford, Delaware. It is one of the few pictures I have from my teenage years. Actually, this is the day I left teenage-hood and turned 20 years old. I look very miserable, probably because I was. Things that were occurring in my life: my grandmother was suffering horribly with colon cancer (I was living with her taking care of her), my parents were going through a very nasty divorce (in which I was being used as a tool), my dad was drunk/drugged all of the time, acting like a psychopath and terrorizing my mom and I, my boyfriend at the time was not really in love with me and I knew it. He was just holding on. I, however, was in love with one of his friends. It was a bad situation. All of these people were uncomplicated friends, and it was a welcome break from the chaos occurring in my life to hang out with them for just one night.

P.s. I was kind of fat here. I remember that I had lost about fifteen pounds that summer (six months before this I was REALLY fat). When I moved to Philadelphia two months later I dropped more weight (and became infinitely more happy) when I was going to art school and attending lots of raves)