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Who's afraid of teens? Democrats and Republicans -- how was their week? Justice Kennedy's purposefulness. Beyond the anti-Bush groupthink. Those were the days. Diane Smith returns. Plus much more.
p> LOCATION, LOCATION br> Re: Lawrence Henry's The Kids Are All Right : /p> p>It is amazing to me that people of our generation seem so afraid of teens. I live in a wonderful small city in central Virginia and on nice and not-so-nice days there is a walking mall that has become the major hangout of teens of all stripes. You see hip-hoppers, kids with multi-colored hair and a lot of piercings, and kids in all black... Yet whenever I find myself entering a store or coffee shop behind or ahead of these young people they invariably hold the door. It always makes me smile, especially when one of these polite young people is dressed in jack-boots, spiked hair, leather--that somewhere a mother or father has taught them politeness which they choose to practice. These strange looking and acting teens appreciate politeness from others as well. There is a very successful dumpling store on this mall that has an incredibly loyal following of teens (as well as the rest of the city that knows about them) primarily because they are inexpensive and also they treat these young people as people and not annoyances. Do we not remember our own childhood and that terrifying transition between childhood and adulthood? br> Regards, br> -- MarthaJoy M. Spano /p>

The second paragraph of this web posting indicates the Mayfair Mall is near Detroit, however the Mayfair Mall is in Milwaukee, WI.

p>There does happen to be a Fairlane Mall outside of Detroit (in Dearborn) that enacted a similar curfew on teenagers. br> -- Ian
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