Not much is known about Tally's early life other than she attended Oberlin College at the same time as Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Elijah. It was implied by Hannah though that they were rivals of sorts since they had all their writing classes together. She did have a boyfriend at some point who killed himself by crashing his vintage car while on Percocet, which Tally wrote about for her memoir. Which she titled Leave Me Alone.