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Corelli GIEFER

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TRUE ADVENTURES OF A TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN JAMAICA, W.I.

Submitted to Contest #263

TRUE ADVENTURES OF A TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN JAMAICA, W.I. I was a skinny, but highly energetic and athletic child.  At ten, I had just begun to wear glasses. I was proud to be the best friend of Peggy.  She was fourteen and very smart.  She knew ‘everything’, I was certain.  She told me that I would soon get my ‘menses’; which would mean that I could have children: but she warned me it would only happen when I had sex.   Then she explained what ‘sex’ was.  Sex, she explained, is an i...

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