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?
katina.cooper almost 11 years ago
The saleswoman, who looks to be Emmy Lou’s mom’s age, is trying to keep from screaming.
annieb1012 almost 11 years ago
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?