Lena was a Gen X queen who snarled into the world. Her mother died when she was 8, a casualty of the Great Cabbage Patch Kid stampede of 1983.
Like most kids of her time, Lena lived in a state of benign neglect. No one asked where she was at 10 o’clock. She went home when the streetlights turned off.
She survived copter-sprayed Malathion and equally noxious hairspray. She lived off Cap ‘n Crunch and Tiger Beat.
Lena was a New Wave girl, whose life had been rocked by Duran Duran. One night at summer camp, though, a friend introduced her to The Damned. She turned punk and never looked back.
–Sarah Torribio
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