Actually, if you've seen the movie "Ode to Billy Joe" you would know that the girl in the song was Billy Joe's girlfriend, a secret they kept between each other.
One evening when they were alone together, they began getting intimate with each other and Billy discovered for the first time that being intimate with her didn't arouse him (and of course back then there was no such thing as Viagra).
At that point he began to question his sexual preference while still believing he loved her. After that experience, he was too ashamed to ever face her again, couldn't explain why, and decided he couldn't live with himself anymore, so he commited suicide. It was a very sad story.
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