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Unquestionably she had to learn to dismiss unsolicited attention and her clothing choices are still deliberate.

The boys’ friends on the other hand were far too invasive until we spoke to them, one going so far as to enter her room early one morning. For a few not even the conversation worked.

It was a situation of young male hormones run rampant in the midst of a young woman and we understood, which is why we had to put a stop to the boys’ friends staying overnight for a while. As I said, everyone survived.

All that to say these issues are a common part of adolescence, not a symptom of mental illness requiring mastectomies.

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