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Hosting a teenage party: Smells like teen spirits →

July 3, 2017 Featured

"You're brave," a father smiles, as he arrives to collect his half-cut daughter. "Rather you than me."

I think that in the morning, when I find a (thankfully unused) condom on the bathroom floor, and lean over to scoop beer bottles from the living room floor. She helps with the clean-up too. "How do I work this?" she asks, holding the limp mop in one tired hand.

Tags Sarah Catherall, The Sunday Star-Times, 2017, life
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