Summary:
These chapters talk about Astrid's 2nd home where she lived with the Turlocks. Ed and Marvel are the parents and they have two small children. In their home, Astrid becomes an unpaid babysitter and servant. Astrid becomes friends with the Turlocks' next-door neighbor, a beautiful African-American woman named Olivia Johnstone. Astrid admires Olivia's beauty, wealth and self-gratifying lifestyle. Olivia is a prostitute by profession and is hated by the Turlock family. After becoming friends with Olivia, Astrid begins using drugs and performing oral sex on a boy in a park in exchange for some pot. Olivia teaches Astrid about all of the finer things in life. On her fifteenth birthday, Astrid goes for a walk, and is bitten by a pack of dogs, leaving scars on her arms and face. During the winter break, Astrid is expelled from the Turlock household after accidentally falling asleep at Olivia's house one night. She loses Olivia as she leaves and tells Astrid not to talk to her anymore.
Notes: Astrid wants to become a women. This is her second life.
look up: hedonistic: a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
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