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Originally Posted by Lala
Yes, I remember reading this a long time ago, and I was starting to wonder if I had my facts straight
Ah...here's the full quote
The immediate inspiration is from Jane Petty, who is Tom's wife, because she told me that when she met Tom he was, she said, 'at the age of seventeen' but she has this incredible southern drawl so it sounded like 'edge of seventeen' and I said, 'Jane, (I 'm writing it on the menu, right! Im going...) I'm writing a song called Edge of Seventeen.' And she laughs, you know, she didn't ever think I was ever serious. So it started out about Tom and Jane basically, who I have no idea what they were at 17, but I made it up. And, uh it went into being written about [her Uncle Jon and John Lennon].
~Stevie Nicks, The Stevie Nicks Story from The Source, 1981
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Even though I think that accent story is at least slightly contrived or greatly exaggerated....she did include Jane in the Wild Heart thank you's:
Jane Petty (for the mirror) .
Not hard to conclude the "mirror" she is referring to, at least in regards to EOS, is that she and Jane both met their future mates in high school, when they were 16.