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The biggest mystery to her is the opposite sex.
And thats where things get tricky.
The clouds finally part for Kayla when a kind older girl, Olivia, becomes Kaylas first real friend.
Third base, answers Kayla, who has pulled the term from thin air.
Off his reaction, she walks it backwards: Second base.
Take your shirt off, he says to her.
Shes certain that the error was hers.
Im really sorry, she says, over and over.
I felt that its true, its something that happens, and it needs to be shown.
Then he created Kayla and found that a teenage girl could encompass a whole world.
At Sundance, at least, audiences were eager to listen.
