Summary

The narrator, Molly, begins telling her tale when she is seven years old. She relates she lives in a “rural dot” called Coffee Hollow and how she first found out she was a bastard. At the time, one of her friends and classmates was Brockhurst Detwiler, otherwise known as Broccoli. While walking home from school one day, he needed to pee and Molly saw his penis. She thought it looked odd because it still had the skin on it and freckles all around and decided that the two off them could make some money off it. Molly came up with the plan they should charge a nickel for the other kids in the school to see Broccoli’s penis. The plan works fine for about two weeks until Nancy asks to touch the penis and Broccoli agrees. Molly decides they should charge a dime...