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Every society is marked by an adolescent stage. A growing-up period. A time when each young member feels he is infinitely more daring and modern than the adults ruling the establishment he often rebels against. Nowhere is this phenomenon more marked than in an open society like ours.
Many an adult has smiled in remembrance of the time he snuck out back to enjoy a forbidden cigarette or beer. The time he challenged another boy to a drag race. The time he threw a firecracker in the school john.
Sheri Jackson’s story is that of a young girl growing up in her own special way. Breaking the moral code she has been taught. Flaunting her body in open rebellion. Reveling in any and every wanton new experience. Indeed, Sheri makes a world of her own, where hedonism becomes the standard. But the truth is that Sheri is searching for meaning in her life, for love and affection, not just pleasures of the flesh.
SLUT GIRL — the story of a girl’s struggle to find herself, and the shattering experiences that carry her over the threshold into young adulthood and eventual happiness. A timely story for our restless society.
As far back as I could remember, we’d always been poor. I can still recall the Christmas that I got an orange and a toothbrush for presents — that was all, just an orange and a toothbrush. I was six, in first grade, and when school was back in session after New Year’s again, I made up a fantastic list of imaginary presents to brag about to my schoolmates, rather than admit that I got nothing worth mentioning. Then I had to lie and tell them that the presents were so expensive that my mother wouldn’t let me bring them out of the house to play with, which (I hoped) would explain why they were unable to see my new treasures.
This was the pattern of my first few early years. My father never came back from Korea. He wasn’t killed there, I found out later — he just never came back home. Deserted by him, my mother had a steady stream of men coming, staying, and departing. Looking back, I can see that Mom was a born loser in life, and her succession of lovers were naturally total losers, too.
Fictional reading for entertainment purposes only.