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Your daughter is terminally ill and all she wants to do is experience...


...sex

So you get in her face like an a-hole when she's secured a date with a man who might give her what she wants? WTF?

The ones who love us the most always want to make sure we never have anything special in life.

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I don't think her parents knew she wanted to have sex, only her grandmother pieced it together later on. I think they were just trying to protect her from heartbreak. They didn't know Beagle was really a nice guy. The world is hard, and it's even harder for someone suffering from Friedreich's Ataxia. They didn't want her to get her hopes up and be disappointed.

What you say about the ones closest to us never wanting us to have anything special in life is very true though.


I only do it with superheroes.

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The mom thought of her her daughter as fragile and I can't say as I blame her. I'm not saying she is correct in being overly protective but I completely understand why she did.

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Well given your last line and your second to the last line, no wonder you think the way you do.

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