The book for Mean Girls (the musical) and the script for Mean Girls (2004) (the film) was written by Tina Fey. The musical opened on Broadway in 2018 at the August Wilson Theatre, but since the tickets are cost prohibitive for most New York City based writers, we had to rely on a (bootleg) YouTube video of the musical and a (bootleg) copy of the book to write this post.
The musical is (mostly) set at North Shore High School and is centered around Cady who moved to Chicago from Kenya and due to "dodgy decisions cause[d] another girl to get hit by a bus. [...] IT'S A CAUTIONARY TALE\OF FEAR AND LUST AND PRIDE,\BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS\WHERE PEOPLE DIED
But before Cady moved to Chicago, she fell in love twice. When she was 5-years-old, she fell in love with a Kenyan who "LITERALLY" ran from her.
And when she was 10, she fell "IN LOVE. AGAIN.\ [WITH] THIS PEACE CORPS GUY\I WAITED FOR HOURS\INSIDE HIS TENT WITH FLOWERS
This reminds me of Blame It On Rio (1984) where 17-year-old Jennifer (Michelle Johnson) used her youthful beauty and insatiable libido to seduce Matthew (Michael Caine), her father's 49-year-old best friend.
Jennifer shared with Matthew that her love for him actually began when she was 10-years-old.
"I love you [...] I used to pretend [...] that we were married [...] when I was ten."
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