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Brenda Bates is a teenager embarking on her own special journey to adolescence. She finds herself plagued by powerful emotions, sometimes feeling uncertain about her awakening sexuality, sometimes becoming angered over her youthful misjudgments.
COUSIN COMES FIRST — the story of a typical young American girl coming of age. A lesson to us all and a reminder that the journey to adulthood is not easy.
For teenager Brenda Bates, coming to spend the summer at her uncle’s house was like arriving on another planet. Brenda had had a very sheltered and overprotected life as the only child of wealthy parents. Now, staying with her Uncle Joe and his family, she felt like she was living in the real world for the first time.
Uncle Joe seemed worried about it. “I guess things at our place won’t be as fancy as you’re used to,” he said as he drove Brenda home from the airport.
“Oh, please don’t worry about it, Uncle Joe,” Brenda said. “Everything will be just fine.”
She was sure of that, and she was glad to get away from her parents and see how ordinary people lived. Brenda’s folks were going to Europe for the summer.
Uncle Joe was in his forties, a trucker, and ruggedly handsome. Brenda hadn’t seen him since she was tiny, and she’d forgotten how really sexy he was. She couldn’t stop staring at him as he drove through the streets of the small town where he lived, Brenda remembered now that his wife, Carol, was a waitress, and that they had two sons, Mike and Bob, who were just about Brenda’s age.
Fictional reading for entertainment purposes only.