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Show -- THREE Life as an Adolescent I 'VJhat was it like to be a popular teenage girl in a VV good small high school in downtown Salt Lake not quite sure City in the years after the turn of the century? She is of herself-she craves attention and little compliments. She wants beautiful. She is assurance that she is not ugly-that she will be who just in the process of establishing her own identity-deciding she attention to things to date, welcoming friendly advice, paying nice to look wants She mistakes. wants to do, fearful of making but not daring-beautiful but not stunning. She wants to be smart but not overshadowing. She wants to be good, but not "goody, goody." She is thrilled to get a ride in one of the few motor cars in but afraid her message will town; she is delighted to talk in church, have to is she friends, but not to the not be good enough; glad terrified of blood, but proud She is ones. exclusion of meeting new to be "mature." When Madelyn reached her fifteenth birthday, she began to keep a more inclusive diary, one she had been given by her mother as a birthday present. The entries, though not daily, were enough to inform a reader of her friends and her frequent 40 |
