Request #131

 I have searched off and on for a book that I read partially back in the mid 1970’s (I read it in 1975 or 1976) and always wanted to find.  It was one of those books that girls would secretly pass around school.  It was about a young teen couple who got pregnant, married and tried to make a go of it living in a city – (NY?).  They had a hard life.  I remember the line “Tell me that you love me now.” and thought that was the title, but have never found it.  I recently saw the book Forever, by Judy Blume, and thought that might be it as the timing was right, the author was big at my school at the time and it was controversial, but the plot was different (she doesn’t get pregnant and I think they split up in the end), so that isn’t it, but I think I recall that one floating around at the time too – I remember that title.

I don’t know why it bugs me so much all these decades later, perhaps because I never finished the book?  It’s just always bugged me that I can’t find it.  If you know what this book is, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me the title.  It sort of reminds me of that movie Molly Ringwald did about teen pregnancy, but that isn’t the exact storyline either. Suggestion: Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones by Ann Head