there 's a moment when her father 's face intervenes , harsh and forbidding ( i want to see if you 're intact ) and then she closes her arms around eddie 's neck , her smooth cheek against his smooth cheek , and as he tentatively touches her small breasts she sighs and thinks for the first time this is eddie and she remembers a day in july-could it only have been last month ? -when no one else turned up in the barrens but eddie , and he had a whole bunch of little lulu comic books and they read together for most of the afternoon , little lulu looking for beebleberries and getting in all sorts of crazy situations , witch hazel , all of those guys .