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My best friend went to a prom party at the house of a friend, whose father is a well-known actor. His father took everyone's car keys at the door, told them to have a great party, stay over, and he would make waffles in the morning. They were provided with beer and liquor, and they let loose, said it was a great party, and nobody got hurt or drove drunk.
I think it's nothing but responsible to introduce one's kids to alcohol in a controlled environment, and while removing the drive to drink to excess due to scarcity.
The US 21+ drinking age is just stupid and needlessly puritanical, especially considering that one can drive at 16, and at 18, be drafted, vote, smoke tobacco, and get married.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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