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What were you doing when you were fifteen?
For me, I was still a child in relative terms, protected by my parents, and possibly emotionally stunted. I was also living in a small village where everyone knew everyone else. To a large extent, there is safety in such.
Still, though fifteen, with a little more freedom, my parents knew exactly where I was!
The thing is that at fifteen you are on the cusp of adulthood, but you’re not quite there yet. As such you are little more than a hint of the woman you will eventually be, but there’s still a journey ahead, that first stirring of the heart, that first love, first kiss, with so memories that find a special place in your heart, forever.
The other thing about being fifteen is that you have a tendency to believe that in another fifteen years, you will have reached old age! Such are the thoughts of youth.
Yes, there’s a lot of growing up, and unveiling to do.
So who in heaven’s name would choose to cripple that process? Who would ever seek to taint the flow of discovery, the blooming of womanhood with all its charm and hope?
