Indeed, as I myself did. It was normal - pretty much expected, I think - to have crushes on older girls when you were in the juniors; it was also expected that one would grow out of them in due course, which, by and large, most (but not all) of us did.
I don't know if anybody has ever read "Mariana" by Monica Dickens - it has recently been republished by Persephone - as that gives an excellent description of that sort of crush; Mary notices an older girl on her first day, and when asked "You think she's a goddess, don't you?" feels obliged to reply "Of course!" and is thus "saddled with her first and only crush", which dies a natural death at the end of the summer term.
Miranda may or may not turn out to be a lesbian, but I don't think a long-standing admiration of an admirable older girl is necessarily an indication of that.
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Re: Miranda - coming out?
Date: 2014-08-30 07:50 pm (UTC)I don't know if anybody has ever read "Mariana" by Monica Dickens - it has recently been republished by Persephone - as that gives an excellent description of that sort of crush; Mary notices an older girl on her first day, and when asked "You think she's a goddess, don't you?" feels obliged to reply "Of course!" and is thus "saddled with her first and only crush", which dies a natural death at the end of the summer term.
Miranda may or may not turn out to be a lesbian, but I don't think a long-standing admiration of an admirable older girl is necessarily an indication of that.