Mary P commented: "Rick, so glad I'm not the only list member who came to adolescence in the late60's/early 70's and remembers sneaking peaks at "Valley of the Dolls" as arite of passage! I was 12 when I read the whole darn thing..."
My sisters had that book and I used to sneak off and sit in their bathroom while they were working at W.T. Grant's and read away. And after I read that one, what did I find under Pat's pillow but the other classic, "The Happy Hooker." Oh boy. I must have been about 12 and absolutely no context for 3/4's of the stuff in there. At that time, my sexiest daydreams wandered not much beyond holding Paul Mccartney's hand or kissing Johnny Bench. But boy, I could never look at a German Shephard the same way after reading that book. MG
