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Memories
of being a wartime teenager follow.
Gasoline
was the biggest problem for a teen ager. We still had cars,
and gasoline was our biggest worry of all the rationing. We'd
always pick up our dates in sequence when we had gas, and you
might end up not taking your date home if it would save gas
for you to be dropped off first. You'd kiss your date goodnight
in front of your house, not hers. Some guys you didn't trust
very much, and you wondered if they might not be kissing your
girl also, because they would drop their date before yours.
You worried about such things, and there were certain guys you
didn't double date with because you didn't want them taking
your girl home.
Quotation
from Archie Satterfield, The Home Front, 179
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