Forever by Judy Blume

Trip down Memory Lane #4

I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him . . . I’ll never regret one single thing we did together . . . I think it’s just that I’m not ready for forever.

Which Forever edition are you?

This month I went back to Forever. Although I had it in my possession just the once, thirty-five years ago, I was never in doubt about which edition I’d borrowed from the public library: Pan Horizons, first published in 1986, with an illustration of Katherine and Michael gazing at one another and a starring role for the infamous rug (if you know, you know).

Here are a few more editions: if you were a Judy Blume fan, have I included the one you remember?

Ralph, Rugs, and the Fat Problem

My memory of reading Forever as a teenager is strong on feeling and vague on detail. I remembered that the main character’s boyfriend calls his penis Ralph, that there was an important rug, and that Forever was one of the only stories I had access to in which the portrayal of sex was designed for me. 

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