Lovie Simone as Keisha Clark in Netflix’s Forever, the TV adaptation of Judy Blume’s novel of the same name.I can neither remember how old I was the first time I read Forever nor how many times I’ve reread it since. What I can recall about reading Judy Blume’s seminal 1975 novel for the first time is that — even as a millennial girl growing up in the early aughts — it made me feel less alone with my questions and desires. In the novel, Katherine details falling in love for the first time with her boyfriend, Michael. Katherine spares no detail. She describes everything from the first kiss to the awkward unclipping of her bra to the realities of touching a penis to the shock of finally (finally!) having an orgasm. As a teen, these were the realities that I wanted to understand. They were the details that I wished my best friends could share, but we were all equally inexperienced. Instead, Katherine became our guide as we dipped our toes into liking and talking and hooking up. Like generations of girls before us, we passed Forever back and forth at our lockers and hid it from our p