"Except for that one time when Patty had inquired about my feelings on the subject, I didn't ask myself about whether I enjoyed kissing him. I only knew that doing it conferred on me a worth and social standing unlike anything I'd known. The fact that Teddy Bascom wanted to kiss me at all made me feel important, I told my sister.

   

  'To me, you were always important,' she said."

― Joyce Maynard, After Her