I am decidedly not the person to ask, but I've always suspected that people develop so inconsistently, establishing "threshold ages" for various activities doesn't really work. (I've encountered sixteen-year-olds who should be voting and people in their sixties who shouldn't, for instance. :) So I guess I'm going to have to go with a weasely answer like, "Depends on the kid, surely," because, well, it depends on the kid, surely. :)

However, as a general rule, I can say that the minimum age for Exile stories written in the 20th century is infinity. Nobody should read those.

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