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Yikes! I've always thought that this song was a bit of a dirge, but hearing the lyrics..Yikes! It's weird how things don't age well, and when someone just looks at something as simple as lyrics we are like "wait..what?" I think that the trope of an older man making a girl into a woman was in a lot more than this song. I seem to remember this creepy subtext in a lot of films and books too, and all around this time until the 80's. I remember too that when I was in High School, many teen girls dated older men, sometimes really older men and no one said a thing about it. That would not fly now thankfully, but at the time no one seemed to be upset about it that I remember. Which is really weird. I'm glad we have progressed as a society.

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TheWellSeasonedLibrarian
TheWellSeasonedLibrarian

Written by TheWellSeasonedLibrarian

Dean Jones is a Librarian, Cookbook Reviewer, and writer. Dean lives in the SF Bay Area. wellseasonedlibrarian@gmail.com

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