Every girl expects a charming mature uncle to rescue

Lysanne 2022-04-23 07:01:53

Girls all look to a charming mature uncle to rescue: get rid of their boring student life, take themselves to high-end restaurants, listen to concerts, sensuality... Maybe they want to use these to complete the bar mitzvah. But in the end, it was discovered that what was lost was precisely the more precious thing - the girl's innocence and dreams. If this is life, not treating this experience as catastrophe may be a necessary part of growing up. In the end, Jenny woke up: "There is no shortcut to the life I want, only by my own efforts."
This tmd bloody youth is gone...

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  • Jack: We have to have this out. Well, if you won't do it, I will. I'm still your father.

    Jenny: You're my father again now, are you? And what were you when you encouraged me to throw my life away? Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men, but what about you two?

  • Helen: Someone told me that in about 50 years, no one will speak Latin, probably. Not even Latin people.