Just a little note - could come from any era - a couple of lovers planning to get together. Let's see, will I come down with his parents? With a friend, to save money? With someone to fix up with his friend? All unacceptable. All would interfere with the time we would have to spend in a little hotel room somewhere, if not make that time completely impossible.

Do we still have to use subterfuge with our parents, once we're over 18? Should we? Is something lost, if we don't have to? If we have to make no efforts? If we no longer have to consider consequences? Are these the ravings of an old lady who had to make such efforts and values it simply because that's how it was done? Who thinks maybe there was more meaning? When we had to make the effort? When we had to think about it?

Oh, nonsense. People still screwed - and screwed up. And they still do. Some people even still find meaning. I guess.