And Emmy Lou’s mom is what, maybe thirty-five?! Forty at the most?! Even fifty wouldn’t be “elderly” to a lot of us readers! I was a teen when Emmy Lou was, and all the moms I knew had started having children in their early-to-mid-twenties, having married shortly after college. Presumably, non-college moms might have started even younger.
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My understanding has been that Emmy Lou is sort of perpetually fourteen. Fan1?
And Emmy Lou’s mom is what, maybe thirty-five?! Forty at the most?! Even fifty wouldn’t be “elderly” to a lot of us readers! I was a teen when Emmy Lou was, and all the moms I knew had started having children in their early-to-mid-twenties, having married shortly after college. Presumably, non-college moms might have started even younger.
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My understanding has been that Emmy Lou is sort of perpetually fourteen. Fan1?