This is totally what both my parents did for a living in the late 60s-mid 70s. But I can't really see either of them verbally abusing anyone- although my dad has said some pretty radical things about his old clients.
Who knew this job was interesting enough to write about?? And, Helen sounds really, really mean and shouldn't be working with people who require niceness and patience.
I don't dislike Helen because she's a wretched bitch. I dislike her, or anyone, who says "to boot". I just... I just hate that. She IS a wretched bitch, though. But in a refreshing way, as JB said, most of the chicks in these stories are nauseatingly schmoopy.
It's refreshing to have a love story where the heroine is genuinely unlikeable. Usually they're so painfully likable that I want to kill them. Which is not to say that I approve of her personally. I just like to see someone tweak the genre assumption that only certain kinds of people find love and get married.
What's with the shrimp-colored theme going on around here, is what I'd like to know. And, in case anyone was wondering, my porn screen-name would be Jezebel Fairhill. Hmmmmm.....
*goin to see an attorney about changin my name brb*
Ha, Lex! Lex was also an early Cherry Ames love interest, before Wade the Fighter Pilot Turned Auto Mechanic came on the scene. Maybe that was my problem all along. She wanted to be a nurse more than she wanted to get laid; I wanted to get laid more than I wanted to be a nurse.
Maybe we should also do some of these from the 80's. I have a few Silhouette teenage editions from 1983 or so that would be amusing.
@TheFormerJuneBronson: OMG Cherry Ames!!! My mom turned me on to those when I was a little girl - if I remember right SHE read them when she was a little girl (are they that old?). I loved Cherry with her crisp nurse's uniform. Sigh. Ah, I love nostalgia.
@largirl: That's how I got into them! And yes, they are that old--the first few are from the forties and take her through nursing school and straight into being an Army nurse during WWII. They're fresh in my mind because I've just been re-reading them. They are good autumn books. The vast majority take place between August and Christmas. I don't think Helen Wells liked springtime much.
@TheFormerJuneBronson: Bless it. I have a deep an abiding love for Cherry Ames books. She always had some hot man lurking. I really wanted her to get married to one- and still have a career. But I suppose that was considered impossible at the time, which is why she always leaving the men behind.
@SisterMaryMartha: I always wanted that for her too. The new man in every volume...it was all such a tease! I think it may have given me the impression that there would be handsome, charming, intelligent young men everywhere I went when I grew up, too. Maybe in the forties, there were. In the nineties? Overgrown man-boys, at best.
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Who knew this job was interesting enough to write about?? And, Helen sounds really, really mean and shouldn't be working with people who require niceness and patience.
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And yes, I just chose to pick up on the most boring bit of that whole thing. I can be a little nit-picky.
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*goin to see an attorney about changin my name brb*
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Make of that what you will.
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You're clearly more altporn than I.
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Maybe we should also do some of these from the 80's. I have a few Silhouette teenage editions from 1983 or so that would be amusing.
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I have a deep an abiding love for Cherry Ames books. She always had some hot man lurking. I really wanted her to get married to one- and still have a career. But I suppose that was considered impossible at the time, which is why she always leaving the men behind.
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