Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Dave Barry
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  2. Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later he may be with his real girlfriend. - Amy Sedaris

  3. Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things thenleave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are. - Anna Godbersen

  4. It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late. - Wendelin Van Draanen

  5. It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. - Anne Tyler

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