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Like father, like son; like mother, like daughter? How much do they learn? What must they learn, and why? Is necessity the mother of invention? How far must we go to survive? We must turn from convention at times to make ends meet. How do we manifest love, and what compromises must be met, and how do we regard each other when compromises must be applied? This novelette exemplifies the calm and deliberate lessons that must be learned and applied in the scope of a mother and daughter caught in these dilemmas regardless of Society's impressions, opinions, approvals or disapprovals. This is an example of doing what must be done in the most appropriate fashion. At 18, Chrissy comes of age, in its most glaring sense, when she understands fully what it is she must do to join her mother in practices that she has only known peripherally. She does this with great deliberation. It is time to act.