>>Well, after looking up Nabokov, (or more specifically, the book I'd
>>imagine Gryphon is referring to) I'm forced to speculate how Rose
>>could have done -that- and had it have anything to do with acrophobia.
>>Oooo-kaaaay...
>
>No, no, you misunderstand me. If you accept the old saw that the best
>way to overcome the fearsome and/or the unknown is to confront it
>head-on, then the struggle with heights isn't really all that
>noteworthy ("Learn how punch when learn how keep dry," as Mr. Miyagi
>might have put it), but its converse in the next generation becomes...
>interesting. In a "when did I wander into a backchannel dojinshi"
>kind of way, anyway.

And in a "that's illegal in the state of Massachussetts" way, too, depending on how old Sakura is at the time.

However, I believe the age of consent is lower in NH and/or ME (I forget, exactly). Which still doesn't address the whole father figure/legal guardian issues.

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