Mildred joins the frightening Winchester High set; Green "develops a will"

texture · tenth grade, early Subsidized era

• When: UNDATED (by tenth grade; early Subsidized era, Winchester MA)
• What: By tenth grade Mildred had metamorphosed into "an imposing member of the frightening Winchester High School set" — smoking Marlboros in the alley, leaving at lunch in low-slung cars to drink and smoke dope. In response Green "saved up for a low-slung old car and practiced Attitude on the aunt who'd taken him in. He developed a will," until by the year of what would have been graduation he was "way more bored, imposing, and frightening than even Mildred Bonk."