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[quote=Anonymous]Is your daughter reasonable and responsible? Talk to her about being safe in an unknown city, tell her wether you think she should go (eg don’t leave Manhattan without an adult; don’t stay out past X o’clock, etc). If she’s a pretty reasonable kid and you trust her to hold your boundaries if her friend suggests otherwise, let her go. If she’s rebellious/forgetful/easily flustered/highly anxious/overawed by this friend, maybe have her sit this one out. I knew kids at 16 for whom this might have been a disaster but most of us would have been fine. I explored NYC alone with a friend at 15 — not staying the night but taking the train in, going to a few museums, then a specific art film we wanted to see, then taking the train back to her home. I felt so accomplished and grown up doing it![/quote]
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