In june of 19 82, when you were actually 16, you graduated from your alternative high school barefoot in an ankle length white gauze dress. The next day you moved to new york city with 205 dollars that friends of your parents had given you for graduation gifts. And so i've been writing my my whole life and studying it my whole life. I lived on 20 ninth street, between eighth and ninth avenue at the same time a you know the name? Yes, yes, mines, it was.