All she wanted to do was to research her Genealogy but she discovered a dark secret about her forebears that seemed so terrible that she was changed forever.
Sixteen year old Ruth changes her name to Annie so she can be just like the Irish girls and let the boys make her do delicious dirty things. She has a lot more fun as Annie because now she is no longer the stick in the mud, "Ruth" who is far too prim and proper.
Veronica in a tutu is imprinted in my mind like the Mona Lisa. My sister pushed her BFF in my direction with a sense that I had her on a pedestal and she wanted me to pull her off and make her just like the rest of us.
The scene that Rose walked in on in her sister's house with her Brother-in Law and the babysitter was not appropriate for mixed company. She decides that he needs proper punishment for his cheating ways and she might scratch her itch at the same time.