Who is Dorothy Plunk from Rocket Boys: A Memoir and what is their importance? Rocket_Boys English & Literature Dorothy Plunk | Rocket Boys: A Memoir

A very popular and pretty, smart girl, who dates older boys in other high schools and in college, Dorothy is Sonny's first love. Sonny sees her as "God's perfection," and someone "...to be worshiped not handled." They are friends and he hitchhikes to have study sessions with her on Sundays for a couple of years of highschool. His love for her is inexorably altered when Sonny sees her on a date and dancing with his brother Jim at the Dugout. She is the valedictorian of their class .After high school graduation in 1960 Sonny doesn't see Dorothy for 25 years. When they re-connect at a high school reunion, his discovers he continues to have love for her in his heart and they are able to be friends.