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I’ve been dreading today. For week and months, I’ve been avoiding the hype, the news, the tourists, the sorrow. Especially the sorrow. Because it’s so heavy, I feel like I might just drown in it. The weight of being a part of that “where-were-you” moment, the moment that defines my generation, whether you were in New York or Timbuktu.
I was in New York of course. I was on my merry, oblivious way, headed to the center of the city that was the center of the world, coming from the Upper …

This week, as we all gather our loved ones and our thoughts to give thanks for all the love and luck we’ve received this year, it’s worth taking some time to look back and really take stock. So I decided to create a reverse bucket list of things I’m already thankful I’ve accomplished.

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Hilary Duff
People
April 2007
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Being Hilary Duff isn’t kid stuff. At 19, the singer and actress sits atop an empire that includes her own perfume and Barbie doll. She has also had to survive typical teen angst—including a breakup with Good Charlotte singer Joel Madden—under the media’s microscope. How did the Houston-born dynamo—whose album Dignity hits stores April 3—stay grounded? People‘s Sona Charaipotra found out.
This is your first time living on your own in L.A. Do you feel like a grown-up?
I definitely don’t think that I am a …

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Kal Penn
People
March 2007
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At 29, Kal Penn is a Gen Y cult hero. But when director Mira Nair was looking for the lead actor in the Indian-American drama The Namesake, she had never heard of the star of the youth hit Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Happily, her 15-year-old son Zohran had. “Every night he’d say, ‘Mama, tell me in the morning that it’s Kal Penn,’” says Nair. “He’s a god to teenagers.”
So Penn, born Kalpen Suresh Modi, snagged the role. “It’s a dream come …

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Ruben’s Return
People
October 2006
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Ruben’s Return
Out of the spotlight for two years, Ruben Studdard returns with a new album, a new diet (he’s a vegetarian!) and a new handle on life.
Listen up, ladies: If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, women can woo Ruben Studdard by whipping up some … tofu. “I’m a vegetarian now!” says the singer, who stopped eating meat about four months ago. “It was like learning a new music genre for me,” says Studdard, who now orders greens and …

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Orlando Bloom
People
September 2006
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Shy Guy
No offense, fans! But Orlando Bloom is ready to put Pirates behind him.
Shy is the name of Orlando Bloom’s character in the gritty thriller Haven, and it’s also a fair descriptions of the actor. British-born Bloom, 29, talked to Scoop about his embarrassment doing love scenes, keeping his own love life private – and Marlon “Hottie” Brando.
Your costar Zoe Saldana tells us that kissing you was ‘gross.’ How could she?
I hated kissing Zoe too! I was like, “Take your …

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Avril Lavigne: Let Go
People
June 2002
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Thanks to her catchy, guitar-driven single “Complicated,” Lavigne, 17, is poised to be the next teen-pop princess. But unlike her more mature counterparts Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton, she’s not in any big hurry to ditch adolescence. Lavigne laces this fun debut with charming punk attitude on youthful cuts like “Sk8er Boi,” about not judging a boy by his clothes.
While Lavigne may be young, she’s not that innocent. One moment she’s coyly sexy, the next she’s irreparably wounded. With a malleable alto that slips …