At each incident, Delaire ranted and punished Nita severely, though her punishments were ineffective, as she did not carry through on monitoring.
Nita soon found another ally, a "boyfriend." An older boy had found that Nita would do almost anything for him in order to be accepted by the group and had her perform sexual acts with him, though she would not consent to intercourse in the beginning. However, as time went on, she did have sexual intercourse and became pregnant. Without her mother's knowledge, she and her girlfriend, who helped her, went to a clinic and Nita had an abortion. She told her mother what had happened in a moment of weakness and her mother was horrified, taking Nita's actions to mean that she was ruined. Delaire had been a Catholic, but was not then a practicing one. Her attitudes and ethics were derived from the Catholic religion, but she did not go to church, though she did consult a priest in times of distress. On the priest's advice, she continued to care for Nita, but her requirements were stricter and even more punitive. Nita found it difficult to live within her mother's strict limits and sneaked out of the apartment each night after her mother fell into her drunken sleep. This was only a continuation of her previous behavior, as she had found it easier to lie and sneak around to go to her chosen activities than to tell her mother the truth and put up with a long, judgmental harangue and ensuing punishment for almost anything she did, whether it was positive or not.
During the day, while her mother was at work and she was supposed to be attending high school classes, she "hung out" with her friends in Hollywood. They began to sample drugs and it was not long before Nita was failing her classes and making money to pay for drugs by having sex with friends. Now she was smarter, however, and was...
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