Reviewed:
As a porn freak, I can only dream of getting a girlfriend like this.
As a grown responsible adult, I want to weep.
Once again, the author submits a morality play / social commentary in what is essentially a vignette. She has a knack for character definition using very little descriptive verbiage, and letting the imagination of the reader fill in the blanks.
And it's telling of the Author's superior craft when the review/commentary is about as long as the story.
In just this one act, we can see the future for the narrator, the just rewards collected for her 'boyfriend' and the overall hopelessness of a certain social strata.
You read accounts, post discovery, in the papers and see it on the news and think, "Well what do you expect."
When you only live in and for the moment, shit happens. And reading this and other great efforts of the author, you understand why.
But that's sort of the beauty of stories written as well as this. There's something for about everyone:
For the latent pedo who dreams of a compliant lolita, there's adequate stroke material.
For the moralist, a sympathetic treatment of all three 'victims',
For the amateur anthroplogist, a proof of the thin veneer of evolution and civilization.