LOL - Vic sometimes reminds me of my cousin - who is Australian now, and very strict with her children. She infamously ran away at almost 16 - with the heir to a large alarm company from Long Island - and was finally found in Boston - having had a good share of recreational booze and drugs. This must've been in the late 60s. Said cousin - who is about 4 years older than me followed her boyfriend (deported from San Francisco) to Australia in 1975
- after our grandfather's funeral - which she followed up by telling a bunch of tales to our grandmother who then gave her a bunch of money (despite being begged by her & my parents not to fall for anything) - which thus financed the trip to Australia. No looking back. Anyhow - the moral of the story is that 15 years later, at her folks in NJ, with her 3 kids - the eldest being 13 - her sister (my eldest cousin) and I had quite the time. Cousin Audrey is very "earthy", doing only socially responsible work, etc - and very, very strict as a mother. The kids had NO Idea at all... It was a riot - she said something that was so hypocritical we all almost fell out of our seats - and then we had the fun of a little tale telling - not all the bad stuff, of course. It was a wonder she survived - I think her dad was going to kill her half the time. But, now, in her 50s, you'd never know it was the same person.
Ellice