Fifteen

Experience! How was a girl going to get any experience when her mother was so old-fashioned she didn't even want her daughter to go to the movies with a boy unless she personally knew his whole family tree for a couple of generations?

Jane stared out the window at the lights on the bridges, strung like two gold necklaces across the bay.

Besides, if she couldn't go to the dance with Stan, she didn't want to go with anyone.