It was a pure and simple environment which at times smelled of the havoc only bored kids in the suburbs can wreak. Yes, she ran over a child with her bicycle, and yes, she had her flute stolen at age ten, but none of this would have been possible without the help of Kennedy's brothers fellow terrorists named Bri and Al. She even tried to run for town council at 17, but wasn't allowed by law because of her age. I really wanted to get in for idealistic reasons. When I was a kid, I always thought I could do it better.
Kids are pretty narcissistic.
But as I grew up, I'd read the paper and go to meetings at city hall and think, dude, I can make a difference. Then, after election day, she packed her '72 VW Bug and headed for Los Angeles. She was on-air and running the station herself at age nineteen. Eventually, the morning show producer introduced her to an MTV executive. She auditioned, and was hired as a full-time VJ in the fall of 1992.