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Chapter 35 Summary
Maya reads "The Well of Loneliness" and is exposed to lesbians and pornography. She thinks lesbians and hermaphrodites are the same. Maya asks her mother about sex and calls her vagina a "pocketbook." Vivian tells her not to use those silly Southern terms, but to call it a vagina. Her mother tells her these changes are part of growing into a woman. Mother thinks her fear of becoming a lesbian is funny. She tells Maya that she made arrangements long ago to have a son and a daughter, and that's what she has. For this reason, Maya can't be a lesbian. Later, Maya sees a friend naked and is amazed by the girl's breasts. The girl is more developed than Maya, and Maya worries that her reaction to seeing her friend naked is proof that she is becoming a lesbian.
Maya decides a boyfriend will help her figure out the...
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