Everything I Needed To Know About Being A Girl I Learned From Judy Blume (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
We lived in Flushing, Queens, where David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, was on a murderous rampage. “He’s shooting girls with dark hair!” the kids in my sixth-grade class yelped in those final days of school, looking around with dropped jaws at the brunettes. At me, for instance. And so that crazy summer, my mother gave her boyfriend—a well-to-do businessman who for some reason (it might have been love) fell for a welfare mother of three with no child support from their dad, who hadn’t been seen or heard from in a few years—an ultimatum. Which was: Marry me or it’s over. My kids need a father. And we have to get out of here. We did have to get out. Son of Sam aside, at every sighting of me, the apartment building bully, a skinny kid named Mike, had begun yelling, “Melissa’s growing titties! Melissa’s growing titties!” Mortified, I walked with my arms crossed over my chest, until my friend Leslie pointed out that (a) it was true and (b) it was a good thing. My mother’s boyfriend, who slept on the pull-out couch every Saturday night, wasn’t so sure he was cut out to be a father.
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