"I have not forgotten how much I owe the driver. Thanks to him, I am not a virgin anymore."
I find this to be a relatively disturbing quote. In our society, having sexual intercourse at the age of twelve is very much frowned upon. Therefore, I instinctively found this relatively offensive and disturbing. However, I suppose that this idea can make sense in the sense of the natural human body. That is, when a woman starts her period, that means that her body is ready to finally reproduce and that she actually should be having sex. Perhaps this is why the author has the child have sex the day that she starts her period. Perhaps in the society of the book, when a woman comes opf age, reproduction is expected of her.
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