“I should have asked my mother’s advice…I would have saved myself a lifetime of misery and shame…” (Darling Love 3, 1950). “Yes, I am lonely. Maybe…maybe it will be all right. He doesn’t look really bad. Of course, I knew I was doing wrong...but I was excited...I felt that being with him would provide me with a stimulating, vicarious thrill…” No Jane, don’t go with him! You haven’t been properly introduced! What would Mother say?










