The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech

I should have seen it coming.

A long time before it came I should have known.

I was six or seven years old and there was a girl living next door named Peggy. She was a year older than me and a lot stronger and we were wrestling and she held me down.... All of a sudden it seemed there was something about girls that wasn't all bad.

I didn't know what it was but I should have known that this first feeling with Peggy Ollendorfer meant that down the road, later, I was in for a big surprise.

Afterward, when I was a little older, if you'd asked me what the surprise was like, I'd have said it was about like getting hit by a train. Puberty.