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"Travel! Adventure! Romance! What could possibly go wrong? It's 1972 when free-spirited ""good girl,"" Fay, takes off on a 3-year journey around the U.S. and Europe in search of jobs, apartments and boyfriends. She soon finds navigating her way through The Real World will take a skill set her Sunday school teacher never taught her. Setting off on a 3-year journey across America and Europe, free-spirited ""good girl,"" Fay Faron, shakes off her fundamentalist upbringing as she navigates her way through the changing world of the 1970s, as she faces assault, poverty, punishing jobs, betrayal, loss, and romance. Powering through a series of revenge plagues rained down from The Almighty-hey, she is breaking all the rules, after all-Fay must learn to recalibrate her conservative group-think or abandon her road-trip-as-a-lifestyle existence and retreat to the soul-crushing community from which she escaped. Part historical snapshot, part travelogue and part confessional, this laugh-out-loud memoir is the story of every woman who has pondered the road not taken or grappled with the guilt of not being able to live up to rules she didn't make."

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Laughs, insights and moments of real feeling... Richly complex friendships and romantic relationships...Wit and an eye for the unexpected... Buoyant humor... Engaging and impressive attention to detail... For all the laughs, moments that stir real emotion. Booklife Always quick with a quip, Faron maintains a breezy tone throughout this memoir; her conversations with friends about premarital sex prove particularly amusing. Kirkus Review AMAZON READERS: ***** A wickedly fun and funny journey. ***** If this book doesn't make you smile, you've had too much botox. ***** Fun, breezy, optimistic. Perfectly captures the time. ***** Great book! I was young and adventurous and exploring other countries during the time period covered in this book. I identified with the author and thoroughly enjoyed her writing and her adventures. I liked the part at the beginning of each chapter that had some news and the music, TV, & movies that were popular then. It took me right back to that time in my life. -**** It is a fun read! This book is hard to put down. It is fun read with some serious themes mixed in. Ms Faron's playful use of words kept a smile on my face throughout the book. Her adventures are amazing - she takes us with her around the world. I hope she is writing more books that I can be entertained by. Thanks, Fay Faron, for a good time! ***** Great fast read, heart warming, well told, fair price. Funny, well written, leaves you wanting more about the author's life!! Hope there is a sequel soon. ***** Delightful memoir. A lovely, engaging thoroughly enjoyable read from a clearly joyful spirit! ****** An Engaging Read: Back in the early 70s a poster commonly found on the walls of a good many young people was a map of the United States. Fay's account of her exploration of the world both inside and outside of herself took her to all of these cities and more. Much of what she experienced was at odds with a very conservative religious and political up bringing. Fay defines and redefines herself as she moves from city to city and country to country, bringing a rich sense of humor into every circumstance. The chapter headings include references to the social influences at the time of each pivotal event. As someone who lived through these events as well, it was fun comparing my experience with Fay's. ****** Funny yet poignant. Fay tells a great story and by the time I finished I was wishing I had been lucky enough to have crossed paths with her in my own misspend youth! ***** Fay's adventures are amazing. She takes us with her around the world. ***** This could have been my story - young, idealistic, naive, exploring the world on a shoestring budget. - A lovely, engaging, thoroughly enjoyable read from a clearly joyful spirit!

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"Fay Faron first came into the national conscienceless in 1982 when she founded The Rat Dog Dick Detective Agency in San Francisco. In 1991, her advice column, ""Ask Rat Dog,"" was syndicated by King Features, leading to appearances on virtually every major TV talk & news show of the decade, including Oprah (3 times), Larry King Live and Good Morning America. Faron has authored three books (""Missing Persons"" & ""Rip-off,"" published by Writer's Digest; and the self-published, ""A Nasty Bit of Business"") and been the subject of ""Hastened to their Graves,"" a true crime by Edgar award-winning author, Jack Olsen. In 2001, Faron sold her detective agency and moved to Louisiana, where she was named ""Ferrygodmother of New Orleans"" in 2016 for saving the local ferry system. In 2020, she was awarded Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award"" for her investigative endeavors and community activism. ""Journey of an Ex-Teetotaling Virgin"" is a memoir of her traveling years right out of college."

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