Pictorial Love Stories #22

"Clinging Vine" follows a woman who recalls how her possessive behavior drove away the man she loved. She recounts that as a teenager, she clung to her first boyfriend Tommy, making him feel stifled and inferior, which eventually led him to leave her for good. Years later, while working as a nurse, she encounters Jim O'Brien, a tennis champion and scholar who interests her, but she struggles with her tendency to be overly dependent and jealous. Through Jim's letters while he's away and her own growth during nursing school, she learns that her clinging nature may ruin another chance at love, ultimately realizing the need to change her possessive ways.