#542 The Rhett Butlers- Katherine Heiny
There is nothing more depressing than a story about a
forty-year old teacher having a sexual relationship with one of his
seventeen-year old students. But here it is. What starts out as an innocent
crush, turns into this girl’s first real boyfriend, only it’s not real because
she can’t tell anyone.
She, of course is naïve, but as it turns out she is the more
mature of the two and she breaks it off as soon as she realizes that this can’t
be a real relationship. He is naïve too, naïve to think that this is not a
creepy thing to do. What’s more creepy is that he tells another teacher about the affair,
and it seems to be a non-story between them.
This is just something that happened in her life, and she
seems to have let it go, being more upset at her slipping grades than being
taken advantage of by an older man. The readers of this story will probably be
more outraged than the narrator, or maybe they’ll be more like the mother, and
pretend she doesn’t see anything.
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