The Duquette-farm childhood and the Orin courtship, per Notkin

texture · UNDATED, pre-B.U. and B.U. era

• When: UNDATED (puberty through her B.U. years, i.e. c. late 1990s B.S. - early 2000s)
• What: Per Notkin: Joelle's Kentucky reagent-chemist Daddy responded to her puberty by regressing her — child-rated films, interdicted brassieres and Pap smears, baby-talk endearments — while fighting nightly urges to drill a peephole over the bathroom sink; her agoraphobic mother canned; at college distance the Daddy kept contact via e-mails about the punctured-football autograph; Orin is dated to her B.U. football era and is "as thoroughgoing a little rotter as one would find down through the whole white male canon."