WORDS DANIELLE MUSTARDE
PHOTOS SHARON MCCUTCHEON
The last time I visited Los Angeles I was 15 years old. I wore eyeliner à la Avril Lavigne, had just covertly (and possibly illegally) finished bingeingbefore- bingeing-was-a-thing the first season of The L Word and – unrelated – was also genuinely mystiied about how my family had afforded such an extravagant holiday having never before ventured further than South Shields.