If you think that the perfectly dressed girls who dated the athletes and popular boys were the average white girls because their lives mimicked the "Ozzie and Harriet" life styles on TV, think again. This girl, born in the 1950s to a huge, largely dysfunctional Midwestern family discusses topics such as family dynamics, drugs, religion, being raped, hanging out with the beautiful people in Chicago and other events in life experience by females when a high school education was the most common level of education. There are funny incidents and serious issues. You may be able to relate or maybe you will feel grateful you didn't have to live like her. She wasn't any different than many females growing up without the benefit of the social services and more equal pay and a higher education women take for granted today. She tells an interesting story.