James Dean would understand her

      I was shocked by this young diarist's entry:A
   13 year old girl with suicidal thoughts!(www.opendiary.com)
   Late winter melancholy in the early springtime of
   life.
        I'll bet that eternal adolescent idol-James Dean-
   would have understood her. A memorable scene in " Rebel
   Without A Cause ": Dean screams to his obtuse,middle class
   parents, " You're tearing me apart! "
      Could parental disharmony have traumatized this
   sensitive young girl-who thought herself neither
   pretty nor popular ?
        In that same film Dean's co-star lovely Natalie
   Wood -hungry for her daddy's attention-is coldly rejected
   by him. As if she were now too old to be hugged and
   kissed by a father.
       We can all be better, more understanding people.
   As Dean said to his dying father ( Raymond Massey )in
   " East of Eden " : " A man has a choice! "