from "Before They Were Famous"

People Weekly -- April 28, 1997

For Conan O'Brien,  life at Brookline (Mass.) High wasn't easy.  "My parents had a used station wagon from a hotel,  and it said Pine Manor Lodge on the side,"  recalls the '81 grad.  "Other kids had Camaros.  I looked like I was picking up luggage."   His love life caused more angst.   "One girl asked me to the prom,  and it was so unexpected,  I was like,  'I can't!  I'm having my back waxed that night!'"  But the Late Night host , 31, felt vindicated at his 10th-year reunion: "Kids who couldn't even get their shoes on in high school were successful.  It's the kid who was a big star who's a serial killer now."

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