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Show FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS ' By C. D. Smith What Does A Girl Stand To Lose? 1 1 iHAD NOTHING I TO LOSE BY L- I GOING... fT? ker father continues to be displeased dis-pleased with her because the made a mistake. But, she is very wrong when she says that she has "nothing "noth-ing to lose." If she continues to be friendly, with these boys or goes riding with them, she will certainly certain-ly lose forever the chance to win back her father's trust and confidence. con-fidence. All of us make mistakes, at one time or another. And we generally gen-erally must pay for these mistakes- in one way or another. But when we recognize that something some-thing is wrong, and then continue to do it, we are no longer making a "mistake." We are deliberately doing something that we know is wrong. There is a big difference. We think the young lady can win back her father's confidence if she keeps the right kind of company and proves by her actions ac-tions and attitude that she is striving to be the type of daughter that he wants her to be. She must not let that one "mistake" turn into a habit. If Jtm bars a tsenaz e prablem jtm want t elscass, sr o bserratlon ts make, address year Intrr t FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS7, RATIONAL RATION-AL WEEKLY' NEWSPAPER SERVICE, SERV-ICE, FRANKFORT, Kt. I This week's letter: "Ever since I started high school, my parents par-ents have been strict with me. Maybe it's because I rode home from a ball game with three boys that were pretty wild. Nothing happened, honest, but someone started stories about me. When my parents asked me about riding rid-ing home with these boys, I lied. My brother said he heard someone some-one say they saw me with them. Finally, I told the truth that I did ride home with them. I have tried to make friends with nice kids so I could win back my parents' par-ents' confidence. I won back my mother's, but not my dad's. Before Be-fore all this happened, we were pretty close; now he acts like he hates me. He says I should forget all about boys. Recently, some wild boy's asked me to go riding with them. I refused. Afterwards, I asked myself why I didn't. I had nothing to lose." This young lady is apparently very much hurt by the fact that |