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So your mom was a New York punk legend in the '80s? Big deal.

Remington Write
Nov 4 · 6 min read
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First and worst, there was her name. Fret.

Who the fuck names their first kid Fret? Even being bussed to a school where a lot of the kids seemed to have made up names, Fret stuck out. Fret’s mother stuck out, too, at least she would have if she’d ever bothered with a PTA meeting or a bake sale or a class trip. That wasn’t her…

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