A year later, on anotherPeoplecover: Out of Control!
These days, Beverly Hills hard-partying, check-bouncing bad girl may be going way too far.
Doherty wasdeemed unhinged, branded a liability.
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But for teenage me, those were the very labels that made me fiercely love her.
All these years later, the show remains the pinnacle of teen drama, and Brenda its queen.
Brendaor was it Shannen?became the girl people loved to hate.
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It was all very hurtful.
I know I did.
But for many of my fellow Gen Xers and older millennials, wed also lost a part of ourselves.
We were all a little wild once; we were all a little difficult.
We were all a little Brenda.
