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By August of 1986 Dynasty had completed six successful seasons of mud slinging cat fights, incestuous liaisons, murder, blackmail, kidnapping, and above all else, gold digging; in early January the Challenger shuttle exploded, leaving a mournful nation looking towards the GIpper for comfort; Heart, Berlin, and Kate Bush streamed across the airwaves and blared out of speakers at The Saint as AIDS ravaged the gay communities of New York and Fire Island. Against a backdrop of capitalist soap opera, national sorrow, post-new wave pop, and a mass extinction, another lost Millennial was born on a Wednesday, in a small town once made famous by a forgotten Merle Haggard song.