Filene had discovered sex as it should be discovered, and had
found it was not as frightening as she had believed. After Cheech had
disappeared she took up with Tarzan, and when Tarzan contracted a serious case
of breaking and entering, she moved on to a blonde boy named Speed, who had
come from Pittsburgh and knew all sorts of new ways to dance, and have fun in
the bushes. She was arrested for indecent exposure in Central Park with Speed
and her mother and father beat her severely, and she left home. She took
thirty-five dollars from her mother's purse and got as far as she could on a
bus. When her money ran out, she worked for a time as a waitress in a roadside
diner, until she had enough money to get to an Aunt's home in Boise, Idaho. The
Aunt tried to send her back, but Filene would not go, and the family said they
did not want her back. Six months later Filene met a young man who sold health
insurance, and they were married the following June. Her picture in bridal veil
was run in The Idaho Statesman. She clipped the picture and sent it to her
parents, with the words drop DEAD scrawled across the face in red marking
crayon.
Very nice post
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