Letourneau had grown up in a sunny world far from White Center. “She was brought up to be Miss Prissy, Miss Perfect,” said one student who remembered the teacher talking about her past. Kids from the Round Table also knew her father was somehow involved in government affairs, maybe a senator or something. Mary Kay told the group that she adored her father. “But she never agreed with any of his morals,” Katie Hogden recalled later. Mary's mother was another matter. “My mom gave birth to me and she raised my brothers and sisters, but it was never anything more than that,” she told Katie, who asked about her mother a number of times. After a while she stopped asking. She wished Mary had a close relationship with her mom, like she did with hers. Mary's children were occasional visitors to her schoolroom throughout her teaching career at Shorewood.
