Muriel Schwenck
Beloved Curmudgeon
I can't get past the fact that this little girl will never have the experience of falling in love and yes, in lust, with a boy her own age and discovering sex in a mutually loving relationship.
That is a microscopically unimportant consideration compared to the fact that every adult who should have protected her has let her down, she is a 13 yr old mother with a pacemaker and no family to turn to. That's a fact I can't get past.
She prob fervently believes she is in a mutually loving relationship. Her stepfather may be crazy in love with her too. Of course, the sordid s.o.b. could have let that love give him the strength to restrain from SCREWING HER!
I suppose mom put up with it because she needed him to pay the bills?
And a "boy her own age" is not necessarily going to love and respect her whatever her feelings, probably just use her too.
Seems like she was raised by people with no moral compass. Her situation is almost hopeless.