I thought she was leaving at the end of the year.
IMO, not a good comparison. Jen is a Copperhead, loaded with poison in her mouth.
The Peppermint Patty character is very much like my wife was as a tomboy. According to her dad, as a pre-teen, she made the boys her age look quite inferior playing basketball in the alley near their home.
I met her when she was 20, and before our first date was half over I was convinced that she was the most gorgeous example of femininity that I had ever had, and ever would meet. That evaluation was accurate then, and 44 yrs later, still accurate.