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For the life of me, I can’t understand how it happened. I just can’t believe it. 1 know that teenagers today are irresponsible, but I didn’t think this could possibly happen in our family. What did I do wrong? I talked with her about all this. She knows the facts of life. How could she do this to her parents? It must be that friend of hers, Debbie. What are we going to do? What are the people at work going to say? I try not to be upset, but it really upsets me. What could I have done differently? I should have been more strict. I should not have let her go out with boys. She just never listens to me. And that jerk of a father should have done something. Why didn’t he lay down the law with her? Why didn’t he at least talk to her. I guess it’s just a matter of bad luck. That’s it, bad luck. Well, she is going to pay for it now and she won’t have me to bail her out. She’s gonna own up to her actions and that is that. How could she do this to us?