Becky's parents have decided that she can date guys from high school," Maddy said at the dinner table that Saturday evening. "Tonight is her first real date.""I wondered what you were doing here by yourself. That has to be a first for you two, to not spend Saturday dinner together at somebody's house." My father, sensitive to anything a customer would ask him in business, missed the entire point of the comment.Mom didn't, though. "I don't think that's why she told us that, Jim. I rather think she has an unusual way of asking for the same permission."I kept my mouth closed, for a change, and let them discuss this. It was almost as if I was not even in the room. And I figured, as long as it seems like it is going my way, I'll keep quiet.My father, looking out for the (already lost) virtue of his daughter, "But she's just barely fourteen, dear. My God, that's too young to let her out among some of these boys.""Give our daughter some credit for having something inside her brain, will
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