Artiste, I would love to see one of your paintings, do you have digital images of them you can post, or what subject matter do you paint?
Having been born in 1963, I cannot answer your question about what it was like to be a teenager, I had sister aged 20 and 15 when I was born, my younger sister went thru the brunt of the social upheval of the era, The assassinations, Vietnam, The Draft, Womens Liberation, in her lifetime she had many friend from many walks of life, she could make friends wherever she went.