YOUTH NOW

I Was Sure I’d Die Young

From nightclubs to rehab to motherhood, I’ve always been the youngest one in the room. Not anymore.

Molly Jong-Fast
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Published in
6 min readSep 21, 2018

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TThe year is 1984. The setting: a playground in Connecticut. A twentysomething father with long reddish hair is milling around with a group of young mummies as his daughter plays on the monkey bars. One of the…

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Molly Jong-Fast
GEN
Writer for

on is a contributor to The Daily Beast, The Bulwark, Glamour and Playboy. You can follow her on twitter at @mollyJongFast