[There's equal parts homesickness and comfort in this "chat." She likes talking about it, really. Because it's familiar and she misses it. But it makes her all the more aware of how far it is and how long she feels like she's been gone.]
I mean, we're encouraged to keep to ourselves-- girls with girls, boys with boys. But they don't keep us separated, except when we sleep.
[Because there was no danger of crossed loyalties then. Girls didn't go to the Games with other girls.]
The only thing they really forbid is sex. They definitely discourage athletics dating other athletics, but getting caught having sex is an automatic expulsion. [There's no reason to really sugar-coat it.] That rule pretty much only applies to the girls, though. They catch an athletic boy and academic girl, and they usually hush it up. [But it's not unfair. Not to her. It's simple and practical.] They don't want to risk sending a pregnant girl to the Games, after all.
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[There's equal parts homesickness and comfort in this "chat." She likes talking about it, really. Because it's familiar and she misses it. But it makes her all the more aware of how far it is and how long she feels like she's been gone.]
I mean, we're encouraged to keep to ourselves-- girls with girls, boys with boys. But they don't keep us separated, except when we sleep.
[Because there was no danger of crossed loyalties then. Girls didn't go to the Games with other girls.]
The only thing they really forbid is sex. They definitely discourage athletics dating other athletics, but getting caught having sex is an automatic expulsion. [There's no reason to really sugar-coat it.] That rule pretty much only applies to the girls, though. They catch an athletic boy and academic girl, and they usually hush it up. [But it's not unfair. Not to her. It's simple and practical.] They don't want to risk sending a pregnant girl to the Games, after all.