"Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment"
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That list is deliberately messy. By stacking glamorous categories next to “bikers” and “freaks,” she collapses high-status cool into a single, chaotic ecosystem. It’s a child’s-eye taxonomy: you don’t have the adult language for subcultures yet, just the sensation of adults who feel untamed and slightly dangerous. Dropping “drag queens” into the mix also signals a particular era and scene - downtown New York’s porous boundary between nightlife, fashion, and music - while hinting at a home life where the “normal” rules were already optional.
The second sentence is the real thesis: “But I was not this little rich girl.” She’s arguing against a character the culture loves to cast: the pampered nepo kid, insulated from consequences. “Little” is strategic, too - it points to how she was spoken about, reduced, infantilized. Ending on “an apartment” lands like a reality check, a concrete detail meant to puncture the mansion fantasy. It’s not self-pity; it’s a claim to legitimacy: unusual doesn’t automatically mean easy, and access to glamour doesn’t guarantee security.
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Tyler, Liv. (2026, January 16). Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sure-my-childhood-was-unusual-all-these-eccentric-110126/
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Tyler, Liv. "Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sure-my-childhood-was-unusual-all-these-eccentric-110126/.
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"Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sure-my-childhood-was-unusual-all-these-eccentric-110126/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.





