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Foreign kids dating

Just Your Average 68-Year-Old College Freshman


This hallway is a lovers lane.

Many mornings before classes, young couples sit on couches in the nooks that stretch down the hallway. There’s just enough room for two people. There is an illusion of privacy.

While working with the immigrant parents of kids like these, I’ve learned that their cultures have very different ideas about courtship and marriage. It’s possible that the half hour or so young people steal together here is one of the few private moments they enjoy without supervision.

Pat Shiplett

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