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1984.

Immoral Strokes.

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Diff’rent Strokes 💖

Episode:  The Squatter (15)

Season: 04

Year: 1982

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Childhood Celebrity Crushes - Soul Forge Podcast #195

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Childhood Celebrity Crushes - Soul Forge Podcast #195

Almost everyone has childhood celebrity crushes. To prove it, I asked around and received an overwhelming number of responses. On this episode of the Soul Forge Podcast, we will be going over these lists. For our purpose, the term celebrity is wide open. We  have people who loved singers, actors, actresses, cartoon characters and video game avatars. Stay tuned for a fun list of childhood celebrity crushes.

This episode started off innocently enough. Episodes lately have been kind of heavy. The topics have not been light-hearted. On episode 329 of The Rusted Robot Podcast, I mentioned I had a crush on Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years. Richard, our loyal listener from Australia said that everyone had a crush on Winnie. Naturally, this got me thinking about the other childhood celebrity crushes that I had. Then I thought it might be fun to get examples from other people.

On this episode, you will hear many different perspectives. I got voice clips from co-workers. I got email from listeners. Texts from friends. A huge list on Facebook. Fellow podcasters chimed in. This episode is completely filled with love from our childhoods. In fact, at the end of the show, there’s a clip of celebrities talking about their childhood celebrity crushes!

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This week’s podcast promo: Metal Geeks

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Cecil’s Nonfiction Recommendation List

in the efforts of keeping this as small a post as necessary, I’m going to forgo synopses or else both you or i will be here all day. should a book’s title interest you, if you like you can send me an ask and i’ll give you a rundown + any relevant content warnings!

Memoirs 

-Raised on Ritalin by Tyler Page -Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough -Hyperbole and a Half and Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosch -My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Kabi Nagata -Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from my Bipolar Life by Ellen Forney -They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson -The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine -Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast -Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz -The Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

Art and Science

-What If? by Randall Munroe -Yellow: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoreau -The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair -The Big Orange Drawing Book by Ed Emberly  -The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloy -Werner’s Nomanclature of Colors (Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralology, and the Arts) by P. Syme

Books About Books

-Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Phillip Pullman -On Writing by Stephen King -Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer -Understanding Comics, Making Comics, and Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud -Comics and Sequential Art and Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner -Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc -Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates  by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

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Happy belated birthday, Dana Plato

11/7/1964 - 5/8/119

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every book i read in 2019

full list under the cut! faves are bolded and books read for school are starred

Hunger by Roxane Gay (4/5 stars)

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (4/5 stars)

Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht (4/5 stars)

History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (3.5/5 stars)

Becoming by Michelle Obama (5/5 stars)

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake (5/5 stars)

The Wicked King by Holly Black (3.5/5 stars)

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (5/5 stars)

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (5/5 stars)

What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold (4.5/5 stars)

I Gave Birth To All The Ghosts Here by Lyd Havens (5/5 stars)

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles (4/5 stars)

Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon (4/5 stars)

Shrill by Lindy West (5/5 stars)

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (3.5/5 stars)

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani (4/5 stars)

Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake (5/5 stars)

Like Water by Rebecca Podos (4/5 stars)

The Disasters by MK England (3/5 stars)

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas (5/5 stars)

The Falconer by Dana Czapnik (4/5 stars)

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan (4/5 stars)

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (5/5 stars)

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (4.5/5 stars)

The Fever King by Victoria Lee (3/5 stars)

*Symposium by Plato (4/5 stars)

The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson (4.5/5 stars)

Educated by Tara Westover (4.5/5 stars)

My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (4/5 stars)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (3.5/5 stars)

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero (3/5 stars)

Beloved by Toni Morrison (4/5 stars)

The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown (5/5 stars)

Sink by Desiree Dallagiacomo (5/5 stars)

When The Sky Fell On Splendor by Emily Henry (3/5 stars)

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (4/5 stars)

Damsel by Elana K. Arnold (5/5 stars)

*The Aeneid by Virgil (2/5 stars)

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (4.5/5 stars)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (4/5 stars)

A Queer Little History of Art by Alex Pilcher (3.5/5 stars)

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo (4.5/5 stars)

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (3.5/5 stars)

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray (4/5 stars)

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (2.5/5 stars)

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (4/5 stars)

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (4/5 stars)

*The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (3.5/5 stars)

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (4.5/5 stars)

The Gypsy Moth Summer by Julia Fierro (3/5 stars)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (4/5 stars)

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix (5/5 stars)

Beartown by Fredrik Backman (4/5 stars)

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (5/5 stars)

You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno (4.5/5 stars)

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea (2/5 stars)

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (4.5/5 stars)

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman (3/5 stars)

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (4.5/5 stars)

Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan (5/5 stars)

There There by Tommy Orange (4/5 stars)

The French Girl by Lexie Elliott (3/5 stars)

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (4/5 stars)

Dead Girls by Alice Bolin (3.5/5 stars)

The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake (5/5 stars)

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills (5/5 stars)

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (1/5 stars)

Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens (3.5/5 stars)

With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (3/5 stars)

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (3/5 stars)

The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan (3/5 stars)

This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis (4.5/5 stars)

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum (4/5 stars)

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (2.5/5 stars)

Normal People by Sally Rooney (3.5/5 stars)

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (5/5 stars)

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (3.75/5 stars)

A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne (5/5 stars)

In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (3.75/5 stars)

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman (3/5 stars)

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (3/5 stars)

Women & Power by Mary Beard (4/5 stars)

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (4/5 stars)

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (4/5 stars)

Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector (4/5 stars)

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen (3/5 stars)

Wilder Girls by Rory Power (4.5/5 stars)

Murder, Magic, and What We Wore by Kelly Jones (2/5 stars)

The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg (4.5/5 stars)

The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante (5/5 stars)

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager (5/5 stars)

I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum (5/5 stars)

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi (2/5 stars)

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti (5/5 stars)

In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton (3/5 stars)

The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo (3/5 stars)

Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi (4/5 stars)

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (5/5 stars)

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino (5/5 stars)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (4/5 stars)

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (4/5 stars)

The Whale: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard (3/5 stars)

Not the Girls You’re Looking For by Aminah Mae Safi (3/5 stars)

Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky (2/5 stars)

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (5/5 stars)

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (2.5/5 stars)

How (Not) to Ask a Boy to Prom by SJ Goslee (4/5 stars)

We Sold our Souls by Grady Hendrix (3/5 stars)

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (4.5/5 stars)

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim (4/5 stars)

*Othello by William Shakespeare (4.5/5 stars)

*Lysistrata by Aristophanes (3.5/5 stars)

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox (4/5 stars)

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (2/5 stars)

The New Me by Halle Butler (4/5 stars)

*Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (2/5 stars)

Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson (4/5 stars)

Sula by Toni Morrison (3.5/5 stars)

*Emma by Jane Austen (4/5 stars)

Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer (4.5/5 stars)

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (4/5 stars)

Carrie by Stephen King (4.5/5 stars)

*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (4/5 stars)

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (5/5 stars)

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (4/5 stars)

*The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (4/5 stars)

*The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (4/5 stars)

Call Down The Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater (5/5 stars)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (5/5 stars)

*Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (3.5/5 stars)

Well Met by Jen DeLuca (2.5/5 stars)

Soft Science by Franny Choi (4/5 stars)

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney (5/5 stars)

To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer (3/5 stars)

*Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (3/5 stars)

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (4/5 stars)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (5/5 stars)

*Small Island by Andrea Levy (3.5/5 stars)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (4/5 stars)

One Day in December by Josie Silver (1.5/5 stars)

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang (5/5 stars)

Final Girls by Riley Sager (3/5 stars)

Milkman by Anna Burns (5/5 stars)

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (4/5 stars)

Famous In A Small Town by Emma Mills (4/5 stars)

Blud by Rachel McKibbens (4/5 stars)

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Globe, January 7

Cover: Two CBS Scandals Explode -- Mark Harmon quitting NCIS, Michael Weatherly’s $9.5M sex cover-up on Bull 

Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Nicole Kidman, Alan Alda, Salma Hayek 

Page 3: Scott Eastwood, Jackie Chan, Cardi B 

Page 4: Cover Story -- Hated Mark Harmon ditching NCIS 

Page 5: Keith Richards sobers up, Portia de Rossi pushing Ellen DeGeneres to ditch talk show because it’s a waste of Ellen’s talent 

Page 6: Queen Elizabeth paying slave wages, Michelle Obama mothers troubled Meghan Markle

Page 7: California woman believes she is Princess Diana’s aunt and wants to dig her up to get DNA to prove it 

Page 8: Cover Story -- Michael Weatherly of Bull facing the ax as his secret $9.5M payoff to co-star Eliza Dushku goes public 

Page 11: Food fiend Janet Jackson packs on 30 pounds, bitter Bill Cosby convinced he was railroaded by judge with a grudge 

Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Ellen Pompeo upset at Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb after they tweeted Ellen hadn’t spoken to Patrick Dempsey sent he left Grey’s Anatomy, Miley Cyrus was very very grateful that Liam Hemsworth saved all their animals from the California fire, ugly split between Jenni “JWoww” Farley and estranged husband Roger Mathews, Neil Young threatened to pull out of concert with Bob Dylan because it was backed by oil funders Barclays who are still involved in the Canadian tar sands and back fracking in England but Barclays backed out instead and the show went on, newlywed Nick Jonas spending time with Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson, Martha Stewart will do another season of her cooking show with Snoop Dogg but won’t be teaming up with him for a song, Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Helen Mirren, Bob Saget, Hook-Ups, Babies & More

Page 14: Despite battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Abby Lee Miller is obsessed with tanning, Megan Fox had lots of plastic surgery in preparation of her new show Legends of the Lost, Fashion Verdict -- Zendaya, Paloma Faith, Keira Knightley, Felicity Jones, Bebe Rexha 

Page 16: True Crime 

Page 18: 10 Things You Don’t Know About John C. Reilly, Jennifer Aniston says the girls -- herself and Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow -- want a Friends reboot but the boys -- Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer -- are holding it up, raising children has made Sandra Bullock neurotic 

Page 20: Celebrity Autopsy Secrets -- Lucille Ball didn’t have to die, Prince was murdered 

Page 22: Heath Ledger drug suicide, Amy Winehouse postmortem cover-up 

Page 23: Florence Henderson’s fatal secret, Verne Troyer poison horror 

Page 24: Fight over John Ritter’s tragic death, Elvis Presley died from constipation not a heart attack 

Page 25: Carrie Fisher AIDS nightmare, dirt-poor Dana Plato killed herself 

Page 29: 2018 -- What a Year! 

Page 38: Real Life 

Page 40: Health Report -- too much light causes insomnia in senior citizens 

Page 41: New gel called NES/T could replace condoms for male birth control 

Page 45: Straight Talk -- Kardashians Collapse -- thank heavens the end is near, Spot the Evil Twin -- George Clooney and Clark Gable 

Page 47: Hollywood Flashback -- Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Annie Hall

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What books would you suggest to learn more about the topics you talk about on your blog?

Like a lot of what I’ve written over the years on here has been focused on whiteness and capitalism, so the list is thick with those titles because I consistently have to return to them in my discussions. The list is alphabetically organized, for the most part.

Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Theodore W Allen. The Invention of the White Race (Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control); The Invention of the White Race, Volume Two: The Origins of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America

James Baldwin. The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition

Lisa Delpit. Other People’s Children;The Skin That We Speak

Richard Dyer. White: Essays on Race and Culture

William Faulkner. Go Down Moses; A Light in August

Sylvia Federici. The Reproduction of Labor-Power in the Global Economy, Marxist Theory and the Unfinished Feminist Revolution; Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation; Wages Against Housework (1975); Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (2010); The Unfinished Feminist Revolution; The Means of Reproduction: Interview with Silvia Federici By Lisa Rudman and Marcy Rein, from Race, Poverty & the Environment, Vol 19, No 2 (2012)

Karen E Fields and Barbara J Fields. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Paolo Friere. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

bell hooks. killing rage: Ending Racism; Black Looks: Race and Representation; Where We Stand: Class Matters

Nella Larsen. Passing

George Lipsitz. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

Ian Haney Lopez. White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race

Karl Marx. Capital, Volume One; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts; Value, Price, and Profit.

Monica McDermott. Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations

Manning Marable. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society; Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, Third Edition

Dana D Nelson. National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men (New Americanists)

Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman // Eugene O’Neill. The Iceman Cometh

David R Roediger. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

Lillian Smith. Killers of the Dream

Matt Wray. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness

Richard Wright. Native Son // Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man [read together]

Richard Wright. 12 Million Black Voices

I read in a lot of anarchist theory and especially like Kropotkin and Malatesta, but The Anarchist FAQ is pretty great reading with lots of citations for further reading (link).I write a lot using all sorts of stuff I studied in undergrad for my philosophy degree, for my grad work in history and literature and theory. It’s a little too much to list. I can go into this more, if you like, in a different response. But I’ll try to summarize:

I read in Deleuze and Derrida, and related.

I read a lot of poetry and fiction, and theory-related to both.

Judith Butler and Donna Haraway certainly figure into the way I think about things.

Any of the bell hooks’ writing about love.

I was influenced by Frankfurt School writers while at university, esp Walter Benjamin, but the group in general. Benjamin remains important to me. I think Adorno is over-rated (and has a lot of white boy fans who are closet cultural conservatives) but I like reading him. Anyway, the FS writers were an introduction to theory for me in my early twenties. No internet yet and I saw the famous anthology of their work with the green cover and white text (image). I picked up by chance. I used to walk through the library shelves in the sections with the subjects I liked and grab whatever caught my eye. That FS anthology caught my eye.

The same thing happened with William Burroughs prior to university wandering through the stacks in a library and picked up Queer and Junkie and Wild Boys. The library stack exploring was so important to me.  

I read a lot in philosophy and phenomenology, esp. So the following list of writers is influential to me (alphabetically listed): Hannah Arendt, Roland Barthes, Henri Bergson, Maurice Blanchot, Simone De Beauvoir, Rene Descartes, Michel Foucault, Freud and Lacan, Heidegger and Husserl, Michel Henry, Luce Irigary, Kant and Kierkegaard, Kristeva, Jean-Luc Marion, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Plato, Paul Ricoeur, Richard Rorty (I guess), Wittgenstein.

Shout out for Spinoza and Leibniz

Daniel Paul Schreber. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (doesn’t really go with the list above but this book is important to me)

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Most girls wish to be movie starlets but sadly reality is hard as these young actresses are no longer with us. 1) Tara Correa-McMullen known for her acting in "Judging Amy" died at age 16 in 2005 in a shooting incident. 2) Heather O'Rourke, best known for her roles in the original Poltergeist films died in 1988 at age 12 due to complications in surgery. 3) Judith Barsi starred in Jaws the Revenge and her death is horrific as she and her mother were murdered by her dad and set on fire before the father shot himself to death in a family murder-suicide. Judith died in 1988 at age 10 in such an awful tragedy. 4) Dana Plato starred in Different Strokes and died in 1999 at age 35 by a suicide induced by drug overdose. 5) Bridgette Andersen was the sweet little girl in the movie "Savannah Smiles". She died in 1997 at age 21 of a drug overdose. 6) Ashleigh Aston Moore known for her role in "Now and Then" died in 2007 at age 26 of a drug overdose. 7) Skye McCole Bartisiak known for her portrayal of Mel Gibson's daughter in "The Patriot" died in her sleep at age 21 which later was to be determined a drug overdose. 8) Michelle Thomas known for her role in "Family Matters" died in 1998 at age 30 of stomach cancer. 9) Dana Hill known for her role in "National Lampoon's European Vacation fought with Diabetes Type 1 and died in 1996 slipping into a coma and suffering a massive stroke at her death. All these young girls wanted to make it in acting but tragically their lives were taken away prematurely and these are only 9 young actress who died tragically and young but there are so many others that I couldn't add because I would need a huge collage and many sadly die from drug overdose, alcohol abuse, illnesses, suicides, murder victims, and severe emotional depression as their shining light as young children actresses dim as they outgrow their childhood success and realize the cruelty of the business when their services are no longer necessary. This montage is in tribute to #taracorreamcmullen #heatherorourke #judithbarsi #danaplato #bridgetteandersen #ashleighastonmoore #skyemccolebartusiak #michellethomas #danahill #hollywoodtragedies (at Hollywood)

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Diff’rent Strokes 💖

Episode:  The Squatter (15)

Season: 04

Year: 1982

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Rest in Peace, Dana Plato 🌹🖤

(1999 - 2019)

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Happy birthday, Dana Plato! ❤️️ 🎂 🌹

💗 (November 7, 1964) 💗

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Night Trap (1992)

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Dana Plato in Growing Pains (1985)

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Rest in Peace (05/08/1999)

“I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.”

- Dana Plato ❤️️