A Shooting Star: To belong . . . and be loved. The enduring classis of alienated youth of the 1950-1960s.

All these sources show how this teenage generation in the fifties was important not only in altering dating but in all aspects of their lives. After the Second World War, teenagers grew a voice and became more publically visible. They drove cars and had money to spend. They were a new source of power, independent from their parents and ready for a change. A change, that caused the teenage birth rate in the United States to reach the highest in the developed world. It also brought the teenage illegal abortion rate to an all time high. This sadly brought about deaths and other traumas by unscrupulous Doctors in backseat of cars or in filthy back rooms of some apartment complex. The U.S. teenage pregnancy rate was at a high in the 1950s and has decreased since then, although there has been an increase in births out of wedlock. Mark Lee Young, was born September 28, 1938, had dark brown hair, cut in a flat top with the sides combed back. He withheld the duck tail look because he couldn t accept it as acceptable for him. His eyes were hazel, his skin nicely tanned from all the time he spent in the sunshine. His agile, sinewy body weighed approximately one-hundred-eighty-five pounds. Lee now lay on his back on a blanket all six foot two inches of him. He was breathing heavily staring up at a beautiful sky full of bright stars. The moon was full and the night sky held no clouds. He felt expended, his energy drained and he was conscious of the warmth of the nude body of the girl lying beside him. They d only parted a moment before after reaching a climax to the height of their passion that erupted amidst groans of pleasure like a volcano. Now they lay gasping for oxygen drained of their stimulated desires. Her head with its long black hair rested on Lee s shoulder and a flock of her hair was blowing in the much needed summer breeze across his face. Her hair held an enjoyable strawberry smell of freshly shampooed hair. She also was looking up at the stars the same as he. A shooting star streaked across the eastern sky then as suddenly as it appeared two more flashed in a streak like a comet with a tail of fire following it across the horizon. She turned on her side and brought her leg up crossing over Lee s body. He felt the pubic area of her pelvic region press into his left thigh. As their bodies joined Lee could feel the moisture of their sweaty bodies that the hot summer night brought forth from their recent exertion. We have three wishes, She said, her voice still husky with pent up arousal moving her leg up and down on his manhood. Oh. What do you wish for? Lee asked. I think you know the answer to that one, she said, passionately, biting his ear. Fully aroused he rolled over on top of her and fulfilled two wishes at once for the next thirty or so minutes until they both reached the height of a sky filled with shooting stars. Exhausted they both collapsed in each other s arms. Oh gosh, she said, my legs are shaky. So are mine, Lee said, not wanting to get up. He was afraid his legs might not hold him up.