There was one time when one of my sisters, Ate Julie, when I was about 10 or 11 and she in college, was obsessed with the movie "Fame", Irene Cara, and her song "Out Here on My Own". I was still in elementary school then and have not heard of the movie until she told me about it. She had a radio with her and she turned the station dial relentlessly until she found a station that played the song. What was memorable about it was that before then, I never saw her passionate and excited about anything at all. She's always kept to herself. I never saw her reveal so much of herself after that, either.
Satisfied on finding and hearing the song at that moment, she let me in on a something even more precious to her: she said much as she loved the song, there was another in the same movie that she loved even more. I remember her trying afterwards to play down how much she loved it, which only made it obvious that she did. She had a girly crush and she told me about it!
Today, as everyone in the family has their heart and mind with her, I looked up the song and found the video, above, which appears to have been filmed a couple of blocks from where I first lived in New York.
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