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Why Did Annie Become Interested In Boys?

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As Annie began to become interested in boys, in the innocent way a little girl becomes interested in boys, she also learned lessons about the world and just how different she was from her peers. Annie’s mother had sent her and her sister Amy to the Ellis School, a private girls' school, which had a kind of parallel existence with a nearby private boys' school. In addition to going to private school, Annie also took both piano lessons and art classes. However, it was in autumn of 1955 that the children from both private schools met at dancing school for the first time. “I was surprised to see them that first Friday afternoon in dancing school,” Annie states, not because there were boys at the dancing school but because she already knew all them

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