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She was a nice little girl, simple and true, and tremendously frightened of sex; she said it was because she saw such awful things in the hospital I told her it was beautiful. I wanted to prove this to her. she let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing. […] Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk—real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
— On the Road by Jack Kerouac