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In 1978, Love was arrested in Portland for shoplifting a t-shirt and was sent to Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility in Salem, Oregon, spending the following two years in and out of juvenile hall and numerous foster homes.

In 1980, Love ran away to Portland where she began working illegally as an exotic dancer, and occasionally as a DJ at nightclubs.

She also took job opportunities working briefly at dance halls in Japan and Taiwan, and wrote two missives under the name " Courtney Michelle " in punk-zine Maximumrocknroll on local bands Poison Idea and Rancid Vat.