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In her memoir 'Wannabe,' Aisha Harris examines how '90s pop culture shaped her

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The Little Mermaid and Disney

Do you think pop culture that we love as kids plays a bigger role in shaping us than maybe the things we fall in love with as adults? I definitely think they can and do because those are our most formative years, right? If you are someone like myself who grew up in front of TV, sitting in front of movie theaters and reading, you know, books and whatever, that stuff is going to be a huge part of how you learned about the world. It was the show that made me really, really want to move to New York City and lived that like young 20 something single gal gallivanting around the city"

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