Virginity is a thing of beauty. Often a young girl will never realize that she is beautiful per se simply because nobody bothers to tell her. At the end of these forays into adulthood, she may suddenly retreat into childhood again, especially if the role-playing gets out of hand. So for several years she will move in and out of adulthood, seeking maturity and renouncing it as the feelings takes her. As Colette wrote 'When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes'.
Virginity is an aloneness.
Girls who have many siblings will suffer less from a sense of isolation. Likewise, children who have lived on farm take a far more pragmatic view of sex and procreation. They have observed such events from an early age and they hold no terrors for them as they may do for the solitary girl who is trying desperately not only to come to terms with her new persona, but also to keep her parents' approval, to cope with her changing physical and mental condition while at the same time pretending that nothing untoward is happening to her. As adolescence is a time when intense friendships are formed, it may well be that she can confide in her all-important 'best friend'. I could not help being terribly inquisitive over her body, for she had always kept it hidden from me.