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Article: Dilemmas; `I've learnt my daughter's secrets. What should I do?'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 7, 2002
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Bette read her 16-year-old's diary, and found that her daughter
has been going to wine bars, drinking, snogging men, and cutting
herself. How can she help?
VIRGINIA'S ADVICE
A FRIEND of mine called Tim who shared a room at university with
another student couldn't resist taking a peek at an unfinished letter
he'd left turned over on his table. All that was evident were the
lines: "Enough of Tim. Now, on to pleasanter things."
Reading people's private letters or diaries is like sticking your
fingers into an electrical socket. In other words: ouch. Never, ever,
do you read the words: "Just had such an intelligent and
compassionate chat with Virginia on the phone. What would I do
without such ...