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[quote=Anonymous]If OP is still reading, here's my story:

I was 17, and in the same situation-- invited to a beach house with a bunch of friends, minimal adult supervision, far enough away from my parents that they could not come pick me up if I got in over my head.

My mother said to me "It is your decision. Please think about the following: There will be drinking and sex and possibly drugs. I do not want you to do these things, and I trust you not to do them. If you will be uncomfortable being surrounded by friends who ARE doing these things, you should skip this trip." She then offered to "be the bad guy", and tell the inviting parents that I was not allowed to go. But the decision was mine, and knowing these friends, I could picture perfectly well how it was going to be-- even worse than my mother imagined. So I said I wouldn't go, and she "didn't let" me.

And you can tell your daughter this: The trip was crap, per my friends who went. There was vomiting that someone other than the vomiter had to clean up. There was a hook-up "misunderstanding", and a guy who was too drunk to know what he was doing was left wondering if was really a rapist. There were fights. There were miserable hungover mornings where there was no food in the house and no one feeling well enough to go out and get any. I ended up being really, really glad I didn't go.

Had my fair share of debauchery (some regretted, some not) later on. [/quote]

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