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You remember Deenie , right? The Judy Blume book the pretty girl who has scoliosis and has to get a brace? But do you remember this:. As soon as I got into bed I started touching myself.

Welcome to 'Fine Lines', the Friday feature in which we give a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wizened look at the children's and YA books we loved in our youth. My mother named me Deenie because right before I was born she saw a movie about a beautiful girl named Wilmadeene, who everybody called Deenie for short. Ma says the first time she held me she knew right away I would turn out the same way—beautiful, that is. Oh, how I wanted to look like the girl on this cover. She might be the only cover girl I ever wanted to look like, actually. Those legs! That skirt!

So many of the novels have been banned that naturally I read whatever I could get my hands on while growing up in a sleepy farm town. Need a recap? Smart Girls Get Action Screw the dumb-girl stereotype. Because…of course.

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