The year we said "goodbye" 4b/4

"Apart from listening to preposterous accounts of their exploits by some of my classmates, I hadn't thought about girls until I needed a partner for the matric dance. "The girl I invited attended our sister school. She was as awkward around boys. I met her only because the two schools had arranged for joint dance classes that proved of little value on the night. 'In some ways, Cathy resembled Maxine. She had long red hair, glasses, and wore retainers. The lower one had shiny bands around her eye-teeth. I never discovered whether they were similar in any other ways because I had no idea what young women might like to talk about."