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Treasuring the Last Few Teenage Memories Before College

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I didn't drink and was high on nothing but adrenaline. I was booted out of the house a couple of times, and didn't know quite where I was going. I had to wander the streets looking for someone to take me in. I was in Minnesota in my early teens, where there was an extraordinary amount of freedom.

Treasuring the Last Few Teenage Memories Before College

Then I came back to England, and was angry at how different it was. In the US, at 13 girls went to their first formal with a male partner; at 14 they started dating. If you were seen talking to a boy in England, you had to explain yourself to a teacher. In I was evacuated to Boscombe, and spent every weekend in the New Forest, which I got to know and love.

When I was 17, I took a year off before university and worked as a waitress in Whitley Bay.

We were paid 14 shillings, and when we ran out of food, lived on tea and chips. It was sheer drudgery. I remember being freezing during the power cuts of the 70s, and the dinner ladies dishing out hot orange juice to warm us up. And the summer of 74 will stay with me for ever, when all the soppy girls kept listening to Seasons in the Sun on radios they had smuggled in; I felt as though I couldn't escape that bloody awful song.

That I looked just fine and wasn't a fat blob. I wish I had spared myself all that angst about not being thin enough. Discovering the Stranglers, Blondie and the Jam and playing their records on my Dansette at full blast.

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Most of my pals didn't have a phone so we could only keep in touch via letter. Inevitably we drifted apart. I worked quite hard but I was also a bit of a rebel. Home was unnaturally calm and insular, and that's what I rebelled against — the parental rules and the silly school rules. I remember organising a march in protest at having to stay at school until six, even if sport was cancelled.

It wasn't very successful. That your teens are over so quickly, and that there were more exciting times to come — you don't have to squeeze everything in as a teenager. Travelling to Paris, aged 16, with my friend Rachel and her mum. We were there for a week and I remember going to the Rodin Museum, sitting in a Paris cafe and eating this triangular 'La Vache Qui Rit' cheese and just thinking that it was impossibly exotic.

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When my boyfriend of the time left me at We had been going out for two years, but I wasn't allowed to be upset about it; in my family we were supposed to keep everything in, which made it worse. I was naughty at school: I was rude to the teachers, and didn't do my work, so ended up leaving in Year 9. I was never in big trouble with the police, but always messing around. Winning my gold medal at the Youth Commonwealth Games in It was a dream — obviously a lot of hard work, and I had to be disciplined, but I never missed having a normal teenage life.

When I was 16 and my mother threatened to send me to social services, and wouldn't let me go out. I hadn't been going to the gym, I was smoking, and acting like jack-the-lad.

It turned out she didn't really mean it — but it made me fix up and focus on my boxing. I was fine until I was I had been very confident, and remember performing comedy sketches in front of my whole school. And then I lost all of my self-esteem.

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Stephen Fry, writer and actor They were monstrous, magnificent, traumatic, explosive, lyrical, emotionally sodden, eternal, shameful and fantastically alive. What I wish I'd known That the world was not, as it seemed, expressly designed to exclude me, banish me and hurt me. Best memory Being in love. Worst memory Being in love. Sheila Hancock, actor The shadow of war hung over my teenage years.

What I wish I'd known That it is permissible to have fun. I was very restrained, and I regret that.

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Worst moment In the playground with a group of girls, everyone was picking who had the best hair, eyes, legs. Truly it has been said, the teenage brain is a work in progress, not a finished product.

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My first phone was a Nokia It had a mint cover. I felt so cool. The phone was absurdly basic, but not a lot of people had mobile phones in , especially teenagers. I was part of an elite minority. Well, this was Georgia, rural Georgia. So, you can imagine. I think some of my favorite memories are from my teen years.