Lorien Loveshade's Secret Teen Diary: Age 13 to 18
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On August 23, 2001, a 13-year-old California teenage girl, later known as Lorien Loveshade, started posting her online diary. It was more in the intimate style of "The Diary of Ann Frank," or even "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer," than a typical 21st Century teen blog. Lorien, who then wrote under her real name, shared her feelings and thoughts and the personal life of a young teenaged girl.
But things changed. Fear seized America, and the paranoia that infected America and much of the world reached Lorien as well. She stopped posting her diary online. But she continued writing it on computer privately, and this secrecy enabled her to write even more openly about her personal life and her feelings as a young teen girl. Later, she began posting it again, but this time only on a private site for members only.
Now, on the six-year anniversary of when it began, Lorien is bringing her secret diary into the open. You can already see most of Lorien's life as a 17-year-old revealed on her website, and on August 23, 2006, will be able to read the accounts of her then 13-year-old life. These will be posted in near real time, only five years later--on September 11, 2006, for example, you should be able to read what she wrote on September 11, 2001.
Lorien is 18 now, out of high school and with a few community college classes under her belt. In September, she'll begin full-time study as a college freshman English major. She will continue to post accounts of special events and highlights of her life, such as her upcoming summer vacation. In a few days, Lorien, her 15-year-old soulmate Mindy, Mindy's father and mother and younger brothers, and their mutual friend (and girlfriend of Mindy's 13-year-old brother Bobbie), 12-year-old Flower will be on the road. They plan to spend time with Mindy's aunt and her teenaged sons and daughter, and also plan to see Harmony, a friend Lorien and Mindy met over the Internet. Harmony plans to post his version of their vacation as well.
But before you read her diary, here's a warning from Lorien:
"I write about everything that happens to me. That means that some of this is boring but some of it gets explicit! So really dont read it unless ur mature ok?"
Comments
I've enjoyed reading Lorien's diary for a long time. Lorien is a wonderful person and a fascinating writer, and shows a unique perspective of early 21st Century America through the eyes of a perceptive California teenager. Her insights belie the idea that "Teenagers are too young to know anything." Lorien knows a great deal more than I think her parents suspect, or even would want her to know.
Yes, our sharing the name Loveshade may make me seem biased. But my admiration of her ability to share and her insight into today's America came before the sharing of a last name. She was offered the chance to use the name "Loveshade" because of the admiration of myself and others in the family, and not the other way around.
Posted by: Alden Loveshade | August 16, 2006 07:03 AM
Your Diary is HOT! Most blogs are boring but not yours. You go Grrl!
Posted by: GorillaMyDreams | August 17, 2006 06:32 AM
You're one brave girl, Lorien, for posting such intimate details. I hope we get to read everything that happens with you and "Harmony." ;-)
Posted by: Binky The WonderSkull | August 17, 2006 04:12 PM
Anyone who's normal is NOT going to want to read the personal diary of a young teenaged girl? Is this stuff LEGAL? Anyone who cares about what a young teenager girl thinks and feels needs to have a sit on old Sparky! Fried pedo tonight!
Posted by: Gerbil Lover | August 18, 2006 06:36 AM
I'm sure Lorien, who is currently on vacation, appreciates most of your comments.
As to Gerbil Lover, have you heard of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl written by Anne Frank and edited by Otto Frank, or of the play The Diary of Anne Frank
Written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, which is based on the diary?
The book has done quite well. It was praised by none other than Eleanor Roosevelt (wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt), has been translated into over 50 languages, and is one of the most read non-fiction books. And the play won a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize. Note that Anne Frank was age 13 to 15 when she wrote it, and talks about her feelings, including sexual ones (the definitive edition released in the past few years is more explicit).
And The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer as "found by" Jennifer Lynch was also popular, and was based on the TV series "Twin Peaks." Laura begins her diary by talking about her sexual experiences as a 12-year-old. Those books are just two examples.
As to no one who's normal wanting to read such a diary, is it socially unacceptable to care about the thoughts and feelings of teenagers? No wonder they have so many problems.
Posted by: Alden Loveshade | August 19, 2006 04:38 AM
Her diary is great and I'm in it! lol
Posted by: Nixie Nurita | September 9, 2006 02:19 AM
All right I read some of your diary. Excuse me while I go take a cold shower.
Posted by: Chris Jerkins | October 27, 2006 03:53 PM
Lorien's diary HAS to be one of the HOTTEST on the Internet! You must run your computer on boiled water bcuz that thing is definitely STEAMY! Excuse me while I go take a cold shower...
(We appreciate the post, but unfortunately had to remove the URL. Please read our policy http://loveshade.org/blog/read_before_posting/ for an explanation. Thanks!)
Posted by: LegomyLego | January 11, 2007 04:55 AM
A lot of us love your diary, Lorien. Why have you made so much of it private now? Is there a way we can see it? I love reading about your life!
Posted by: Ashcroft | July 10, 2008 10:36 AM
I try to read your diary as much as I can. I wish you post it current again. Your diary is HOT! If not anyone is present I urge do with what present.
Posted by: Sardine in a Can | July 14, 2008 08:30 PM
Your diary is so delicious I wish you'd post what your doing now. I love seeing your life through your descriptions. Please let us know what's up. Let's have some fun!
Posted by: Short Shorts | July 17, 2008 07:53 AM
Hi there. We're both lesbians, at least I am, and love your blog. I'm 19, almost your age. You should post your sex life more! Love what you do with your little girlfriends. We get hot just reading it!
One day we.....
(We hated cutting off your post. We enjoyed reading it, especially Lorien. Unfortunately, it doesn't fit with the policy for posting on this site. You might want to check http://loveshade.org/blog/read_before_posting/ before posting again, and we do hope you will post again!)
Posted by: Erica and Valerie | July 28, 2008 06:41 AM
Bring back your diary! That Lorien is one horny slut!
Posted by: BiPete | August 11, 2008 07:23 AM
Lorien and Mindy petal as modern Geyshas. Their path through life is open and of great beauty. Many of us wish to see them walk that path again. We want to be your object for a minuscule while. We can pleasure out any illusion.
Posted by: Hikoto | September 2, 2008 05:19 PM
Good afternoon. It is your writings of life that is the ultimate seduction. Help me! I want to see the photographs of you. Your diary it is circumstance persons and most exciting. Please help me to know you. Troy.
Posted by: Troy from Singapore | September 13, 2009 04:12 PM