Recently I said I wanted to go back and talk to young Lenya, and last night I got the chance. When I was 13 I started taking acting classes at Hedgerow Theater. My best friend in the class was Jessica Graham. She was the first person who ever made me feel proud to live in Media. We did wonderful things together, like smoke cigarettes outside the mall, go out to dinner by ourselves, and jump on the big trampoline in her mom's yard with her brother and sisters. I stopped taking the acting class after 9th grade because I had a domineering boyfriend who liked to sever me from my friends in the manner of a sailfish slashing through a school of small prey.

Her father recently passed away and she's been back in Media taking care of him. I ran into her in town and went over to her mom's house last night. It felt like a perfect pattern that we lost touch for a long time and now we have come together again. There was no sense of distance or awkwardness - it was like our two young selves were coming together again, having taken some time apart to set off fireworks. Blessed be!

She's an actress in LA and this is one of her movies: