Chapter Four continued
But it wasn't all work and no play for Jane. Despite her studying and reading, she had time for fun too.
By her late teens, Jane was what boys back then used to call 'A blonde bombshell'. Her long blonde hair, slim compact frame, and height of 5.5 feet or 1.65 metres, turned many boys on. And her grey coloured eyes, short pointed nose,and winning smile encouraged many boys to overcome their adolescent shyness, and ask Jane out for a date.
At her graduation dance in 1955, Jane didn't have any trouble finding a date. By now she was going around with John Tytherleigh, a tall dark-haired man in his early 20's. He was studying to be an engineer at the University of New Brunswick.
"I don't know about that Tytherleigh boy," Jane's mother said. "His parents aren't much. And I wonder whether his father the plumber really loves his wife."
But Jane didn't listen. For now she was in love with John, with his faint moustache, thick brown hair and his fun-loving devilish ways. And she loved dancing with him. In the early morning dawn after the graduation dance was over, the two of them sat in John's father's secondhand Ford and made a vow to marry, only not yet.
Jane kept all of this from her parents. For now she was off to university and this was her first move away from her family.
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