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Sandy Hook
Leeann Mazuca, 17; Tom Kurzman, 18
We’re both seniors at David Brearley High School in Kenilworth. We’re friends. If I was looking for someone—which I’m not, I have a boyfriend—I guess I’d go to Belmar. There’s all, like, older guys in their twenties there, so you get picked up a lot.
Tom: We get down to the beach whenever we can—two or three times a week. It’s only a half-hour, forty-five minute drive, but it’s hard because we both have jobs. I work at a Starbucks. I’ll start college at Pace University in September.
Leeann: I work at ShopRite. Basically, I shop for people who are too lazy to shop for themselves. They go on ShopRite.com and order, and I have to get it for them. Then they pick it up or it gets delivered to them. I’m going to Monmouth University, by the Shore!
Tom: If it was all of us with our friends, we would normally go to Belmar, but that day only the two of us could go, and we just wanted a nice, relaxing day. Sandy Hook is like a little nook of a beach. It’s more family oriented than Belmar. At Belmar there’s bars and stuff where people go out at night, and it’s more for, like, a party scene—for people older than us, even though we wish we could do that.
Leeann: Everybody thinks it’s really dirty, the New Jersey Shore, but it isn’t. I have a friend from Spain and another friend from the Dominican Republic, and they think the Jersey shore is nasty, but then we bring them down there and they see that it’s not. If New Jersey didn’t have the Shore, it would suck.
