Stephen King

He actually based it on two different girls. You're on the right track with your account, but she didn't kill herself that day...she did it later after she was married and had children.

Here's King's words:

She was a very peculiar girl who came from a very peculiar family. Her mother wasn't a religious nut like the mother in Carrie; she was a game nut, a sweepstakes nut who subscribed to magazines for people who entered contests … the girl had one change of clothes for the entire school year, and all the other kids made fun of her. I have a very clear memory of the day she came to school with a new outfit she'd bought herself. She was a plain-looking country girl, but she'd changed the black skirt and white blouse – which was all anybody had ever seen her in – for a bright-colored checkered blouse with puffed sleeves and a skirt that was fashionable at the time. And everybody made worse fun of her because nobody wanted to see her change the mold.


King says he wondered what it would have been like to have been raised by such a mother, and based the story itself on a reversal of the Cinderella fairy tale. He also told biographer George Beahm that the girl later "married a man who was as odd as her, had kids, and eventually killed herself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_%28novel%29


Very sad

Take care



This is a faithful saying...Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

There was another girl Stephen knew as well when he turned older, she was also a social outcast who suffered from seizures and lived with single mother who was a religious fanatic, though obviously not as psychotic as Margaret. At the very least, they owned a pet dog named "Cheddar Cheese."