On Nov 1, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Nathan Kurz wrote:

> I love your analogy, but it conveniently forgets the five years that
> Lucy dropped out of school, ran away from home,  lived under an
> assumed name, and pretended to be a consenting adult.  Lucy is glad to
> be back in a warm, loving home instead of  busking on the streets and
> shacking up with long-haired men of dubious musical talent
> (http://www.rectangular.com/about.html), but she views her time back
> as just as much for her parents' benefit as for hers.  If they want to
> persist in their squabbling, and if they really want to rent her
> bedroom to some stranger for some pittance of a rent, she reminds them
> that she's perfectly able to take care of herself and that Creamy G
> promised he'd always be "froopy" for her.
> 
> Is he the kind of "nice guy" you were picturing?  Do you really want
> to drive her back to that?    :)

Now I'm worried.

:-)

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