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Series: Dear Diary

An open book of teenage experiences—from scrapbooks, sketchbooks and journals to unrecorded memories.

  • October 17, 2011

    My Life On Earth

    BY Mike Sperlinger

    Born in Dallas, Texas in 1983, Ronny Long is a self-taught artist whose work revolves around horror, wrestling and Bigfoot.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • September 29, 2011

    Maiko Life

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Day in the life of young maiko. Maiko are apprentice geishas, the literal translation is ‘dance child’.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • September 26, 2011

    Railroad Club

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Choo Chooooo is the sound of freedom to teenage wanderlusters.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • August 24, 2011

    Hi, I’m —teen

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Teenage Bedrooms—everyone’s had one. Now you can visit teenage bedrooms past and present via teenagebedroom.tumblr.com

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • August 18, 2011

    Leningrad Album

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    “One day, in Leningrad in the late sixties, a boy—or maybe two—endowed with a sensitive judgment and feeling for art imagined the following: how might the best girls, mentally, intellectually and visually seen, dream of him, although not only that…” Evgenij Kozlov

    These eye popping drawings are by 14-year-old Evgenij Kozlov, made in 1960s communist Russia.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • August 16, 2011

    Making The Shining

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    17-year-old Vivian Kubrick captured priceless behind-the-scenes footage of one of the most notorious horror films of all time—The Shining.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • July 31, 2011

    ESPO: Quality Communication, No Permission

    BY Abigail Wilson

    ‘The 7-11 at 64th and Lebanon ave, Overbrook Philadelphia 1984, I’m boosting mallo-cups and that’s a soft pretzel in me gob.’

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • June 20, 2011

    Memories: Children of the Corn

    BY Jonas Seaman

    Earlier this year contributor Brock Shorno shared behind the scenes photographs from Children of the Corn, taken by child actor Jonas Seaman (pictured above) at age 13.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • June 13, 2011

    TeenAngster Presents: AOL Youth

    BY Alison Feldmann

    It was the summer of 1997. I was a thick, telephone pole of a 14-year-old in jorts and an oversize Far Side t-shirt, sitting on a clammy folding chair.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • May 19, 2011

    Nirvana Mind

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Trinity, the girl i lost my virginity to and a die hard Kurt fan, introduced me to Nirvana on the tape playing boombox in her bedroom.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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