DEAR LATE 1980S TEEN
May 03, 2018
3 minutes
Creative non-fiction by Teresa Stenson
Illustration by Silvia Stecher
Dear Late 1980s Teen
You don’t know me, but I wrote you a letter, and you wrote back, in the summer of 1989. You were fifteen and you thought I was too. You also thought I was a boy called Justin. But no. I was me, Teresa, and I was eight years old.
Justin did exist – he was my mum’s boyfriend’s son (stay with me here) and your real pen pal from
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