Last week I told you about the appearance of Youth in the school when I was picking up Olivia. Today I happened to be walking and got chatting to said Vision's older sister. It turns out she's not her older sister at all, but her mother, and she remembers me from secondary school - after I had left, she left in Transition Year to have a baby (more productive than mini-company, eh?) and the girl I assumed to be her younger sister is actually her 14 year old daughter... who looks alarmingly older than 14, while her mother looks alarmingly younger than 29, I suppose.
It's a funny little world really. This somehow felt more significant while I was walking home thinking about it, but now I'm surrounded by my own two whinging demanding youth sappers so I can't think and must go attend to a sore tummy and a cheese toastie.
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Mmmmm. Things that don't seem to make sense are yet perfectly real.
Can you imagine being twenty-nine with a fourteen year old?
Well, she said it had all worked out quite nicely.
Teen pregnancy is extremely common here...
My sister had a 'break' from school to have a baby at 17.
She finished school, her son is now 17 himself. Not condoning it, but it's not the end of the world.
Oo, no-one's saying it is. There's definite tradeoffs to be gained for having children early.
hm..honestly..i wouldnt mind to be 29 with a 14 year old..and..well..you know
You lost me at 'the girl I assumed to be her older sister is actually her 14 year old daughter...'
me too! i think you meant to write 'the girl I assumed to be her younger sister is actually her 14 year old daughter...'?
WEll spotted, you eagle eyed pair.
Sometimes I say exactly the opposite of what I mean. I don't know why.
More importantly it proves that no one else reads your every word like we do.
Shame on them all!
Yes... OR, they just got it and moved on, in laisser faire fashion...
I can't help myself....
'Laissez faire'
It shows I care.
whoops again!
Isn't there something quite Bohemian about misspelling 'laissez faire' and not giving a shit?
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