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To: tejek who wrote (717218)	5/23/2013 1:40:58 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588251

>> There were kids with ear piercings as young as 6-7 when I lived in LA in the 90s. There is nothing unusual about this anywhere in the country. I see kids much younger than this with ear piercings all the time. >> The point that I was making is that kids grow up faster in LA........more aware of sex, drugs and experiences we normally associate with adulthood. This is NOT "growing up". You are a very confused person. God, I'm glad you didn't make a school teacher. I'd hate like hell to think you're indoctrinating kids in a classroom.

To: tejek who wrote (717218)	5/23/2013 5:33:50 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588251

There were kids with ear piercings as young as 6-7 when I lived in LA in the 90s. This is what you said: "take a walk down on Melrose Ave and you will see a ton of middle class 11 and 12 year olds in full make up, body piercings and tats." You didn't say anything about kids as young as 6-7 with ears pierced. You said that 11 and 12 year olds had body piercings and tats. Not just an odd kid here or there, but a "ton" of them. And not gang bangers and poor white trash, you said "middle class". If you mother grew up in Larchmont, then you must have graduated to S. Pas or La Cañada for you to be so naive Nope, I grew up in Orange Country and Lake Tahoe. But I left Tahoe over 30 years ago and I have been in L.A. since. I live two blocks from Selena Gomez, three blocks from Randy Jackson, Vivica A Fox...one street over, Scary Spice....my son and her daughter were in the same 5th grade class. My son plays on a baseball team with Nick Turturro's kid. In other words, I live in the very community where you would find kids growing up faster...and guess what? 99% of them are still quite innocent at 13/14yo and none of them have tats or body piercings. What you have done is taken a stereotype about L.A. and tried to make it real. But it just ain't so. To use Lindsey Lohan or Amanda Bynes as your examples is absurd at a couple of levels. First and foremost is that they don't represent the norm and second, they aren't from L.A. And perhaps the most important point is that someone like Lindsay Lohan proves the point that people in their early 20s do stupid shit and are very different from someone in their 50s. And key to all of this is that Monica Lewinsky doesn't matter...she wasn't the POTUS. Bill Clinton was the POTUS. It's his actions that matter.