According to her website, Rowling's mother and father met at eighteen, married at nineteen and had their first child at twenty. I'm twenty-three and it really makes me uncomfortable to think that some ideal template for relationships excludes me already for being too old :(
Some people in fandom, of course, like this whole thing. You complain about everyone in fanfiction meeting their true love aged eleven and they say "Do you think it doesn't happen? It does! My mother and father met aged twelve, married aged nineteen and are still together fifty years later!!" Well, that's nice, but it's far from being everyone's experience.
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Date: 2005-10-16 10:25 pm (UTC)Some people in fandom, of course, like this whole thing. You complain about everyone in fanfiction meeting their true love aged eleven and they say "Do you think it doesn't happen? It does! My mother and father met aged twelve, married aged nineteen and are still together fifty years later!!" Well, that's nice, but it's far from being everyone's experience.