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Christine B.:
Okay, for all of you who have teenaged daughters (or who have been a fifteen year old girl at some point in your lives)...is there such thing as a fifteen year old girl who doesn't have a crush on somebody? I'm not talking about a girl who has absolutely no crushes--I'm just saying, would you believe a fifteen year old girl who sort of has this picture in her head of her knight in shining armor, but no one she knows at present fits the bill? In other words, she might see boys around and think they're cute, but she's not focusing in on one person at present.

Maybe I am worrying for no reason. A crush doesn't fit into my plot so adding one just for authenticity's sake is not where I want to go. And maybe I am over-estimating this, but I feel like crushes are a BIG DEAL when you are a 15 year old girl...but I'd really rather give her a general "someday my prince will come" kind of crush -- more like a movie star crush, rather than a crush on the boy down the street. Would you believe a fifteen year old who felt this way?

(Don't know why I can't figure this out in my own memory...I must have mentally blocked all the boys I ever had a crush on when I was fifteen years old, lol!)

Thank you as always!

DonnaE:
I DO know a girl like that. She is my daughter's best friend. Very normal, funny and precious girl - and sounds exactly like the 15yo you described.

MysteryRobin:
I certainly don't think every 15 year old girl has a crush at all times. :)
In fact - did I know anyone I liked when I was 15? I don't think so - 14 yes and 16 yes, but 15 feels like a wasteland to me. LOL!

Christine B.:
Thank you both! I am working on draft 2 of my WIP and I am questioning every detail for authenticity...in draft 1, it was so easy to just say, "Hmm...she might have a crush, we'll deal with that later." But now in draft 2, I am trying to answer all those open questions. The mc is a princess who is being "shopped around" to potential suitors (of course she hates all those guys -- a bunch of greedy jerks!). But then it made me think, well if marriage is on the horizon, I should resolve the crush issue...Anyway, thank you for the response and I will keep checking back for more opinions!

(Robin...yeah, I think I might have blocked 15 too...  ;)  )

DonnaE:
In that situation, I can certainly understand if she did NOT have a crush on anyone. If someone were trying to "shop me around", I'd rebel and against the system that had pigeon-holed me. 

So yeah - it sounds reasonable! (of course, a knight in shining armour could rescue her, giving her the choice to like or not like him!) :)

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