Fortunately, Helen doesn’t blame Deenie and this causes them to become closer. This causes Deenie to become afraid that Helen will hate her because of that. She claims that Joey was let go because of the family’s doctors’ bills due,to Deenie’s scoliosis. Thelma has Joey fired from the gas station because she sees that Helen has become preoccupied with him and is now distracted from her school work. Meanwhile, Helen has fallen in love with a boy named Joey, who works for the family’s business, a gas station. Deenie used to not want to touch her, because she was afraid she that she would catch her rash. She even befriends a girl with eczema named Barbara. When Deenie sees the brace, she wants to scream, FORGET IT!Ī positive thing that comes from the back brace is that she is no longer being dragged to modeling agencies and can now focus on her best friends, Janet and Midge, and especially on her crush, Buddy Brader. She is then taken to a doctor who diagnosis her with scoliosis and prescribes a back brace that should be worn for four years. Her gym teacher also tells her the same thing. She states that “Deenie is the beauty, Helen is the brains!” At a modeling agency Deenie is told that she needs to work more on her posture. The story centers on a 13 year old girl named Wilmadeene Fenner or Deenie who is always being taking to modeling agencies by her mother Thelma who wants her to be a model and also wants Deenie’s sixteen year old sister, Helen, to be a doctor.
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