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* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Maureen was this for TheGayNineties, TheFifties, and every decade in between.
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* OverprotectiveDad: {{Averted}}. Maureen's father encourages her to lose her virginity. When she does a month away from turning 15, he congratulates her and gives advice on living a life of promiscuity.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Maureen and her husband Brian have a conversation while he's on the road. As they have an open relationship, she asks him if he's going to pick up girls at a bar, but he says that he's too tired and will take care of it himself.
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* ContemptibleCover: One cover shows Maureen naked on a half shell like ''The Birth of Venus'', only she's green for some inexplicable reason.
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* FakeFirstKiss: For her first sexual encounter, Maureen chooses Chuck Perkins, a classmate she has no romantic feeling towards, as her partner. they kissed before doing the deed, and though Maureen greatly enjoyed it, she did not fall in love with him. Even as their relationship turned sexual, they never fell in love despite caring for each other.
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* FakeFirstKiss: For her first sexual encounter, Maureen chooses Chuck Perkins, a classmate she has no romantic feeling feelings towards, as her partner. they They kissed before doing the deed, and though Maureen greatly enjoyed it, she did not fall in love with him. Even as their relationship turned sexual, they never fell in love despite caring for each other.
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* FakeFirstKiss: For her first sexual encounter, Maureen chooses Chuck Perkins, a classmate she has no romantic feeling towards, as her partner. they kissed before doing the deed, and though Maureen greatly enjoyed it, she did not fall in love with him. Even as their relationship turned sexual, they never fell in love despite caring for each other.
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* BrokenAesop: Maureen's father teaches her to reject organized religion and cultural social norms, and instead think for herself and develop her own moral code. But the code she develops for herself is indistinguishable from her father's, who doesn't mind that she believes the exact same as him.
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* OverprotectiveDad: {{Averted}}. Maureen's father encourages her to lose her virginity. When she does a month away from turning 15, he congratulates her and encourages her to live gives advice on living a life of promiscuity.
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* OverprotectiveDad: {{Averted}}. Maureen's father encourages her to lose her virginity. When she does a month away from turning 15, he congratulates her and encourages her to live a life of promiscuity.
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* TheirFirstTime: Maureen describes in livid detail how she and her classmate Chuck Perkins lost their virginities to each other.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: There's nothing immoral about teenagers having sex, and an incestuous relationship can be wholesome. Just make sure both parties consent and protection is used (and don't catch anything).
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* AllWomenAreLustful: Maureen definitely is, and her daughters take after her.
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* KissingCousins: Maureen and her cousin Nelson had sex several times.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: The majority of Maureen's sexual encounters are this.
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* GoodBadGirl: Maureen is a proud slut, and she also has a strong sense of morality.
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* SexIsGood: The novel's main aesop.
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* ExtremeLibido: With all the casual sex she has, Maureen comes across as an AddledAddict version.
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* HormoneAddledTeenager: During her teen years, all of Maureen's thoughts and actions revolved around her next sexual encounter.
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* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Maureen was this for TheGayNineties, TheFifties, and every decade in between.
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** Donald said, “Dallas phones are all tanks now. How come KC still uses flatties? Why don’t they modernize?” \\
I answered, “Money. Donald, any question that starts out ‘Why don’t they—’ the answer is always ‘Money.’
I answered, “Money. Donald, any question that starts out ‘Why don’t they—’ the answer is always ‘Money.’
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* DeadpanSnarker:
** '''Maureen:''' Nelson, [father] told me later that he had not guessed that banks were about to fail; he did it just to annoy Deacon Houlihan — Deacon ‘Hooligan,’ Father called him. Do you remember him? President of Butler State Bank. \\
'''Nelson:''' No, I guess he died without my permission.
** '''Maureen:''' Nelson, [father] told me later that he had not guessed that banks were about to fail; he did it just to annoy Deacon Houlihan — Deacon ‘Hooligan,’ Father called him. Do you remember him? President of Butler State Bank. \\
'''Nelson:''' No, I guess he died without my permission.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: From "Ulysses" by Creator/AlfredLordTennyson, in which an aging hero, bored by his happy-ever-after, resolves to set out on one last great adventure.
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* DivorceAssetsConflict: Eventually averted when Brian divorces Maureen. She has to slap him down hard when he proposes splitting their marital assets 1/3 Maureen, 1/3 Brian, and 1/3 Brian's new fiancee, but eventually gets a fair 50/50 split ... by pointing out that if she invokes this trope in court, she'll get a whole lot more than 50% as the wronged spouse (in the days before "no-fault" divorce).
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* StableTimeLoop / TemporalParadox: Before Lazarus went off to UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne in ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', he gave Maureen a laundry list of future happenings, which she carefully recorded. She parlayed that list not only into considerable fortune for herself but also into helping ensure that the things on the list actually came to pass.
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* StableTimeLoop / TemporalParadox: StableTimeLoop: Before Lazarus went off to UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne in ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', he gave Maureen a laundry list of future happenings, which she carefully recorded. She parlayed that list not only into considerable fortune for herself but also into helping ensure that the things on the list actually came to pass.
