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[quote=Anonymous]I was born in 75.

As teens we definitively had more freedom, more independence than teens now. We also had more responsibility and were seem as older and expected to cope and deal with life.

I wasn't a partier in high school but quite a few of my friends were. There were a lot of bush parties on the weekends. Very few were dating or in relationships. A few were having sex but many weren't.

When I was 16, one of my friends borrowed his parent's van and 6 of us went on a road trip to an amusement park 5 hours away for a weekend. I regularly borrowed my parents car from 10th grade onward and hung out on weekends at friend's places, often staying overnight. We didn't have cell phones. My parents expectations were that we call home if not coming home for the night and that the car had to be home by midnight. We all worked part time jobs and were saving up money for school.

We were actually a pretty wholesome group of teens. We played a lot of board games, and hung out talking a lot. We watched movies, and wandered around in parks at night. None of my friends smoked in high school but they did drink but not to the point of being completely drunk.

College was really when the debauchery started.
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