I ve decided maybe it s better to directly quote the source here because it is hard to paraphrase precisely I have changed it to Deal then spent a lost year in which she went AWOL in New York Let me know if this works for you or if you have a better suggestion The source says By 1998 she decided to jack it in and go AWOL in New York It was a lost year and a lot of fun she says unrepentant Another source Kot says it wasn t a fun year but was depressing It got bad in 1998 Kim Deal says I was pretty depressed before I came to Steve So anyway from these two quotes it may be hard to extrapolate that there definitely was no musical activity going on plus she may have been practicing the drums some that year which could be argued as being musical activity So this direct quote is my best idea for how to account for 1998