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Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Q: My daughter, Kelsey, is a senior in high school this year, and she has never had a boyfriend. When I was in school, I was voted homecoming queen my senior year and received a triple mum. Kelsey has gone mumless to three homecomings, and I don't want her to have to endure another. Would it be okay for me to buy her one and say it's from a secret admirer? Name Withheld

A: Lookingback on his years at dear old Temple High, the Texanist must confess that his efforts at the time were more often directed toward defloweringthan beflowering the female Wildcats skipping past him in the halls. Upon refection, had he applied himself to the latter, he might possibly have achieved greater success with the former. In those days of yore, the mum, a corsage on steroids, was a worry...

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