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[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Lindsey and Stevie were both young, single people. If they became romantically involved while they were still with Fritz, why did they lie about it for 30 years? What motive did they have? Other than Fritz, who would have cared?

Maybe they never let their parents know they were living together at the time (1969), & then later they didn't want to reveal this to the various moms & dads because it would have made them appear untrustworthy or something. "Dad, Lindsey & I lied to you about when we actually lived together." On a separate but slightly related note, I don't think the very conservative Nickses & Buckinghams would have cared to hear about abortions & drug use in the old days, either, which might explain why stories about those activities have been so vague & sometimes contradictory in the past. Even when you're rich & famous & middle-aged, to some extent you're still daddy's little girl or mommy's little boy -- all the more so in tightly knit families like those. I smoked a hash pipe once in college. That was a long time ago, but I have no reason to tell my parents, nor would I care to, even though it wouldn't be a big deal.

But now with three of the four parents dead, maybe they figure no one's around to care anymore.

[GypsyBlueEyes]

Originally Posted by David

Maybe they never let their parents know they were living together at the time (1969), & then later they didn't want to reveal this to the various moms & dads because it would have made them appear untrustworthy or something. "Dad, Lindsey & I lied to you about when we actually lived together."

I thought the same thing. I think this would be especially true of Stevie...I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that she had wanted to keep that bit of info away from her parents...especially her dad.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

Maybe they never let their parents know they were living together at the time (1969), & then later they didn't want to reveal this to the various moms & dads because it would have made them appear untrustworthy or something. "Dad, Lindsey & I lied to you about when we actually lived together." On a separate but slightly related note, I don't think the very conservative Nickses & Buckinghams would have cared to hear about abortions & drug use in the old days, either, which might explain why stories about those activities have been so vague & sometimes contradictory in the past. Even when you're rich & famous & middle-aged, to some extent you're still daddy's little girl or mommy's little boy -- all the more so in tightly knit families like those. I smoked a hash pipe once in college. That was a long time ago, but I have no reason to tell my parents, nor would I care to, even though it wouldn't be a big deal.

But now with three of the four parents dead, maybe they figure no one's around to care anymore.

Stevie did mention that her parents weren't happy that she and Lindsey were living together. She said it was bad enough that she was moving to Los Angeles, but to go there and live with a guy . . . they thought it was tantamount to joining the circus.

Then, she later said that to them, it was as if Lindsey and she were married, indicating that they got used to it.

She also said something about Lindsey never having lived away from his parents when they first moved in together. This suggested to me that she did have an apartment of her own with a roommate or something and that Lindsey had never been on his own.

Actually, it's strange because she talks about going and sleeping in his parents' living room when he had mono and also going to spend the night with him at the coffee plant. You know if 2 kids that age are around each other in the wee hours of the night that they're doing more than music, so it's hard for me to imagine their parents being that appalled by the fact that they were romantically involved. But maybe they were telling their parents that they were "just friends" and that's how they got permission to hang out with each other like they did.

In much the same way that Jack Tripper told Mr. Furley that he was gay, because that's the only way that he would let him share an apartment with two attractive girls!

Now that I think about it, it's been since Stevie's father has died that she is suggesting that they got together earlier, so maybe that had something to do with it. 'Tis strange.

Michele