I roll my eyes and tune out my mom as she lectures me for the thousandth time about “growing up”, “being an adult,” and “responsibility.”That seems to be her favorite topic of conversation lately. Apparently, now that I’m eighteen, I’m supposed to stop caring about fun and start caring about taxes and jobs and college and the ever-present, amorphous “the future.”At some point, I interrupt and ask sweetly, “Tell me about your responsibilities when you were eighteen? How did you ensure that you focused on school and work and never went out or drank or had fun?”She glowers at me, and I meet her eyes, still wearing that innocent smile. I happen to know for a fact that my mom was far from a saint in college. In fact, according to the dean I interviewed with, she was rather well-known on campus for opening her legs to anyone who would buy her booze.He probably shouldn’t have told me that, but in his defense, I wasn’t wearing a bra that day, and I had the top three buttons of my blouse u
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