they might be mostly middle-class kids from fairly decent home, but Heather Swallers is a dramatic exception.
She is dirt poor with nothing and has come from nothing except hell.
Ali sees her at the Mall one day, and befriends her...one of her first acts is to buy her some brand-new clothes, racked up on her mother's credit card.
It's the nicest thing, possibly the only nice thing, that anyone till then had ever done for Heather...that and the fact that she is so damaged anyway, seals her as Ali's adoring supplicant not-much-to-say sidekick..
(she has two of them, Heather, and the apparently dimwitted but equally adoring and sycophantic Donny)
Whether Ali after that time, got Heather into her hooker-ring, maybe,another thing that makes it hard to be sure, besides absence of a direct statement saying so, is that the time-lines in the book are a little all over.
as for these kids generally needing the money, although Ali is spoiled by her parents , has a Mustang 5.0 (not that I personally think much of 80s and 90s Mustangs) I mean, surely even middle-class kids need or want additional money, right?
for a start, even for illegitimate needs, this particular gang all seem to have raging drug habits or at the very minimum they all drink and smoke cigs and weed, even that takes money, you can't rely on your parents financing your illegal boozing and tobacco/weed smoking when you are a mid-class teen, right?
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