HeyJaredMy 90s Teenage Diaries
Extracts, photos and personal reflections from the many, many diaries I kept growing up as a teenager in the 90s
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A laugh you only do when you mean it (opens the original)
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September 1994, I’m 13. Summer is drawing to a close, school is restarting, rain is setting in. This is my diary. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="573.2348901098901" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2QY1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good
Saying hello to boys when you’re 13 (opens the original)
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I love finding moments in my diary where I’d go over a really small detail for pages on end. Last week, in I hope you get to do all you want to do in life, I said this about David, the boy I liked in 1994:We’ve only spoken a couple of times, usually he shouts hello or ayup or alright? at me over busy roads or when he’s riding past on his bikeWell I’ve found a beautiful couple of pages in my diary where I talk at length about this — about how I’d seen him from afar and he&#
I hope you get to do all you want to do in life (opens the original)
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August 1994, I’m 13 years old. I go to aerobics every week, I want to get my nose pierced, and at the start of a new diary, there’s an announcement: This is the first page of my new diary, if you don’t know who I am, there is one important thing. I love David. I’m besotted by him. Well, almost. [If you’d like to read the July 1994 instalment, which sets the scene a bit, find it here.]I then list all the things I know about David, starting with basic facts like h
July 1994: Extra pages (opens the original)
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Hello friends. A few weeks ago, I shared a piece of writing with you, Like something inside of me wanted to get out, about my experience of being a 13 year old girl in July 1994. It felt like something quite different from my usual newsletter and the response has been lovely. I had the inkling I wanted to make something else from that writing, something physical, and as you may already know, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TeresaWrites?ref=profile_header
Like something inside of me wanted to get out (opens the original)
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Hello friends. A small note before I begin. Usually I share photos of diary extracts alongside my present-day thoughts, but today is a little different. While rereading my 1994 diaries, I thought I’d write to tell you about a dream I had when I was thirteen. Instead, I found myself writing about the whole summer surrounding it: the songs, the street where I lived, the crushes, the lists, and the underlying feeling that my real life was just about to begin.Everything in the piece below grew from
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