What kind of a mother...?

[dickens]

I was at Booksmart in Uptown today browsing through the recent arrivals
(scored 2 Pratchett, Selections from Natural History by Pliny the Elder, and a book by a Macalester prof about Genghis Khan.)

There was a group of 3 teenagers browsing at the same time and one of them was telling the other two that she'd once found a gilt-edged, 1837 edition of Milton's Paradise Lost and had wanted to buy it, but her mom talked her out of it.

I just don't get why her mom would do that.

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[buccaneer.livejournal.com]

Think of it this way; she knew who Milton was, and wanted to buy the book. And she was a teenager.