Dear Young People of America, Senior Year Is Actually Not the Best Time of Your Life

It's prom/graduation season, which means that wherever you look on TV there's an almost fetishistic obsession with these rites of passage. On 16 and Pregnant, Danielle Cunningham sounded more upset about missing out on her senior year with her friends than about the fact that she suddenly had a new baby that she'd be responsible for for the next eighteen years or so. On Glee, Quinn announced, "you can get married as many times as you like — you only have one shot at your junior prom." Movies f...

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