Sometimes when you are young your surroundings affect you deeply, but you are in the midst of it and you know somehow your home is not like other kid's homes, but you deal with it as there is no alternative, especially if you have no other family and your father does not live with you. I loved this play probably even a bit more now than then, as I can look back clearly at my dysfunctional childhood with an extremely damaged, abusive and unstable mother. I re-read his Pigman for the first time since the early 70s and it was great. Now it was time to move on to Paul Zindel a huge favorite of my as a tween and young teen. Judy Blume's Deenie was fine, but when I got to Forever, I was bored stiff and stopped. The Beverly Clearly ones gave me a slight smile, the Frances Lattimore ones which I adored in the late 60s were nice to read again, but were clearly dated. I decided to re-visit some of the books I loved as a young person to see how well they've traveled. I read this book for the first time over 40 years ago when it was a recent book and remember liking it but never having read it again in all these decades gone by.
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