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For their close readings and critical comments on this work in progress, I wish to thank:
Dale Dodson, Cindi Foncannon, Karen Kasaba, Judy Laird, Karyn Mazo-Calf, Mike Reynolds, Matt Reynolds, Sharon Reynolds-Kyle, and Anne Scott. Lisa Lundstrom at Calvine High School. Marc Mallinger and student readers at South County Community School.
Barry Barmore and student readers at Century High School.
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Marilyn Reynolds
New Wind Publishing
Copyright © 1999, 2014 Marilyn Reynolds
All Rights Reserved
No part of this publication may be adapted, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without permission from the publisher. Like Marilyn Reynolds’ other novels, If You Loved Me is part of the True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High, a fictional, urban, ethnically mixed high school somewhere in Southern California. Characters in the stories are imaginary and do not represent actual people or places.
Originally published by Morning Glory Press, 1999.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reynolds, Marilyn, 1935-
If you loved me / by Marilyn Reynolds.
Summary: Racially mixed seventeen-year-old Lauren, the daughter of drug users, is pressured to have sex with her boyfriend and questions her promise to herself to stay a virgin until she is married.
ISBN 978-1-929777-00-6
1. Sexual abstinence—Fiction. 2. Sexual ethics—Fiction. 3. High schools—Fiction. 4. Drug abuse—Fiction. 5. Racially mixed youth—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series: Reynolds, Marilyn, 1935- True-to-life series from Hamilton High.
PZ7.R3373If 1999
[Fic]—dc21 99-29522