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In 1973, at 15, Sable met Johnny Thunders, the New York Dolls` guitar player. When she learnt that the Dolls were coming to LA, she gathered with some friends to offer them a warm welcome, they even bought gifts for them. Sable chose to give a gift to Johnny, Frederick`s lingerie, which was her favourite. They fell in love with each other and, for Johnny, Sable even said goodbye to her life as a groupie. When her mother insist too much that she go to school, she runaway from home to New York.
The beginning of their relationship was a great time . They would spend all their time together, wandering through LA (they even managed to get busted for jaywalking across Hollywood Boulevard and were ordered
to pay a fine to the traffic division of the juvenile court) or just staying in the hotel room.
When the Dolls came back to New York, Johnny took Sable with him. They wanted to live together, Johnny`s mother helped them to find a place to live in, an apartment on West 24th street, and furnitures for it. It was hard for Sable to bear New York`s cold winter, but Johnny took her for a buggy ride and bought her a red setter puppy for Christmas.
But their happiness didn`t last long. Johnny was very jealous and his growing use of drugs lead him to psychotic like states that made him aggressive and difficult to bear. Sable, trapped between her still very strong love for Johnny and her need to be happy, eventually cut her wrist. But she was found in time by the New York Dolls` second guitar player, Syl Sylvain who took her to Bellevue hospital.
She was given the chance to choose between going to the psychiatric wing or coming back to her parents. She came back to her parents.
After some break-outs and some beatings gave by the jealous Thunders, she decided runaway to Atlanta. There she met Keith Richards. But Johnny Thunders insisted, Sable had a moment of weakness and came back to New York. Then, she started dating Johnny again until she left him for good in 1974. As she explains: "It didn`t worked it out, but we planned to marry. Even I got pregnant, but had an abortion. He wanted to change myself: Johnny is Italian, he wanted I stayed home all the time. He made me feel bad, `cause I was a hot girl and suddenly I was a lady of the house".
Sable later begun to split her time between LA and NY, were she met people like Debbie Harry. She used to see Johnny there as well, but then just as a friend. He introduced her to his band mate, Richard Hell, and Sable fell in love with Richard and moved with him.