Honesty

The year was 1982. I was eleven years old, in the sixth grade. A lot of things took me by surprise that year. I found out “the facts of life” from my parents. Then, at school, in Health class, they started talking to us to us about Safe Se and condoms. REALLY? Weren’t we a little young for all this? Maybe. But, there was a scary new disease that had just come out the year before. So, the school wasn’t taking any chances.

Honestly, I don’t know if being curious about sex is the same thing as having a libido. I’ve never been given the opportunity to find out! Obviously, no one was going to choose me for “SPIN THE BOTTLE”,  or “Seven Minutes in Heaven.” In fact, when my turn came for such games, the guys usually paid their friends Not to pick me!

Well, so much for the joys of middle school.

In high school, I was voted “least likely to” which may have been the reason I didn’t date until college!

Oh, great folks, now she’s done it! She broke another taboo; mentioned S-E-X.

Is she really allowed to have those thoughts? Isn’t she too innocent?

Although I live the life of a nun, the people who know me best, would say I’m much more Scarlett O’Hara than Laura Wingfield.