My Boy Friend’s Name is Jello (p. 95)
Short fiction, Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)
“Little girls don't stay playmates. Little girls become big girls and big girls become sweethearts.”
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Quoted in The London Review of Books http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n01/hasl02_.html (6 January 2000)