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Review by Deb Hockenberry (310112) Rating (9/10) Review
by Deb Hockenberry At her childhood home, she is welcomed with open arms by her family. Naturally, her parents admit her to the hospital where the doctors repair her shoulder. Now that sixteen-year-old Billie Jean is married, can she stay at her childhood home or will her stern mother make her go back to her manic husband? Aunt Tommie enters the story here. She believes in marrying rich and having the best of everything. She takes Billie Jean to Arizona to live with her and her uncle. Billie Jean is schooled in the proper way to get a rich husband. Aunt Tommie teaches her how to walk, talk and behave like a lady around the ‘right’ people. At her coming out party, Billie meets a handsome man in his twenties named Jackson. Of course, Jackson is struck by Billie Jean’s beauty and wants to marry her. By this time, Billie Jean is used to the high life and the attention shown to her by men. She flits from man to man searching for someone who can take Cal’s place. She marries several of these men. Each time she marries, Billie Jean is sure she is in love. But is she?
Six times she goes home to 1106 Grand Boulevard where her sister
helps her drown her sorrows by going shopping. She goes back to
1106 Grand Boulevard each time a husband dies or when Billie Jean
goes through a divorce. Once she went back when her then husband
went off to fight in World War II. Will there be a seventh homecoming
for Billie? Will Billie Jean ever find true love or will she keep
flitting from man to man like a bee flits from flower to flower? |
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