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In 1980, Susanna Hoffs moved to Los Angeles and put out an ad looking for like-minded people to be her bandmates in the daily newspaper The Recycler. She only got one response from Annette Zilinskas. Eager to find other women to play with, Hoffs answered an ad she saw in the same paper, written by someone named Lynn Elkind.
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When Susanna called the number in the ad, Elkind’s roommate and former bandmate, Vicki Peterson, answered the phone. She and Hoffs hit it off right away and decided to form a band together. Vicki and Susanna had a lot in common and shared mutual influences. Vicki’s younger sister Debbi quickly got on board as well, and two became three.