It’s quite possible I owe a fine to the Burnie Library from circa 1996 due to over-borrowing Judy Blume’s Forever. For one, I couldn’t get my hands on it at my small religious school where sex-ed basically amounted to being shown a very 1970s movie of an extremely natural birth which was truly enough to put most of us off sex for life. (Which was, of course, the point.)
The book, first published in 1975, is about 18-year-old Katherine and Michael who fall in love and have sex. Katherine loses her virginity to Michael and it’s a big deal, but maybe more importantly, it’s not the biggest deal.
As Judy Blume says in the recent documentary , she wanted
