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What Adults Don't Understand
My mom was reading one of the poems of this magazine the other day, and she did something that really irked me. She was reading a poem from the February issue, Nothing Like. When she was finnished reading, she let out a 'humph', like she didn't actually belive that "kids" like us could know what love is yet. Like love is only for responsible adults. Well let me say something right here and right now: By the time you are thirteen, you have probably been in love. There I said it. Now people can argue about it.
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Can teenagers be in love? Sure, but so can children and we don't expect them to maintain long term, emotionally beneficial, healthy romantic relationshops.
It is totally unfair for someone (adult or otherwise) to tell anyone else (any age) that they've never been in love, and/or are too young to have been in love, it is true that as you get older, being in love means something different.
WHile it is entirely possible, and even probable that almost everyone has been in love by the time they are thirteen, being in love when you're 13 is completely different than being in love when your 16.
But, also, age doesn't neccesarily have anything to do with it. I think love changes every time you fall in love.
Of course I can only speak from my experience, and I'm not saying that you can't be in love when you're nine or thirteen. I know when I was nine I said I was in love with a boy, but that was a completely different thing than when I fell in love when I was 16.
I really like this article, though. It makes your point very well and is very well written! :)
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