***In an email yesterday, she said she’d been to Vancouver, B.C., where the Mexican food is awful, and a shipmate bought her a Cuban cigar. I suppose every young adult has to try smoking, just to annoy her mother ...***
I’d just be concerned about what she’s smoking if she’s in Vancouver. Unfortunately it has a needle park as well as the best of Chinese drug connections.
I wouldn’t worry about Cuban cigars. With little else to offer except sugar cane, the Castros make sure that their cigars are primo.
Nah, she’s not stupid. And she had daily growth hormone shots for three years, in her early ‘teens, so she avoids needles now!
(Plus they were only there 12 hours. I don’t know where they went next.)