Minnie In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

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Minnie is a 15-year-old girl living in the 70s with her mother, and her mother's coke-loving boyfriend. The teenager keeps a diary on her tape recorder, and she tells that diary how she's had sex for the first time. Her first lover is her mother's boyfriend.

From that first encounter, Minnie finds that she enjoys experimenting with sex and the power of her attraction. She has group sex and sex with strangers. She's exploring her sexuality while still pursuing her mother's boyfriend. While at first, she thinks she might be in love with him, she finds that she enjoys the hedonistic pleasure of the illicit affair.

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