"Kit went to work in the feedlot while I carried on with my studies. Little by little we fell in love. As I'd never been popular in school and didn't have a lot of personality, I was surprised that he took such a liking to me, especially when he could've had any other girl in town if he'd given it half a try. He said that I was grand, though, that he wasn't interested in me for sex and that coming from him, this was a compliment. He'd never met a fifteen year-old girl who behaved more like a grownup and wasn't giggly. He didn't care what anybody else thought. I looked good to him, and whatever I did was okay, and if I didn't have a lot to say, well, that was okay, too. Of course, I had to keep all this a secret from my dad. He would've had a fit, since Kit was ten years older than me and came from the wrong side of the tracks, so called. Our time with each other was limited and each lived for the precious hours when he or she could be with the other, away from all the cares of the world."
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1970s American filmsCrime drama filmsUnited States National Film Registry filmsRoad filmsFilms set in Montana
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Badlands (film)
Badlands is a 1973 film about a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend who slaughters her father and several others in the Dakota badlands. It was loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's.
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