“I agree this is a political hit job. That said, I have little doubt that Moore dated teens when he was in his thirties.”
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The ONLY ones I found halfway credible were the ones who said they were “courted” by Moore with the permission of their mothers. And on their dates, he was a perfect southern gentleman who treated them respectfully.
When I was 19 and enlisted in the Air Force I dated a "townie." She was the second civilian I dated but the first ever to not be my age or older as she was 17 and I met her the month before her graduation. Her parents really liked me and gave me permission to date her.
She was truly a sweetheart and I really liked her but I considered her so young that the only thing I ever did with her was hold her hand, never even a kiss. Because of that she sort of broke it off with me after about three months and I found out from one of her friends that she thought I didn't like her enough to kiss her and she actually wanted me to go even further than that. I just couldn't do it because she was two years younger than me. I think that maybe I was an idiot for not treating her more as an adult than a younger girl but then again she really was probably too good for me.
She was a Catholic girl with a huge family and two of her sisters had married much older men.