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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2374869" data-attributes="member: 31094">I was 18 and lived in Nicosia, Cyprus. My parents worked for the American Embassy (as did I, as a diplomatic security escort). There was group of 4 teenaged American girls in the entire country, of which I was one of course. We did everything together. There were also many lonely (cough) UN soldiers hanging around the "neutral zone" which was wha they called the mile-wide strip or so between the northern Turkish 1/3 of the country and the southern Greek 2/3.  And when I say "lonely" soldiers, we were perfect ladies, but we did go out on a lot of dates. Can't have any true hanky-panky when you're overseas and have to worry about who's been where (diseases and such), but you can certainly meet lots of cute boys and hang out and have fun. I swear! Anyway. There was a bombed-out hotel in the neutral zone and the UN soldiers wanted to have a karaoke party. I knew my parents would never let us go unescorted, so my friend Jill and I made a pact to each tell our parents that we were spending the night at the other's house. We were having a kickin time at the party until the crowd of cute boys parted to reveal ... my father .. standing there with his "Oh holy god are you in trouble" look on his face. Turns out that our friend Jessica had told HER parents about the party (except that she told them my stepmom was the escort), and then everyone's parents met together for a pinochle night, and her parents saw my stepmom and asked why she wasn't at the karaoke party. Yeah. Good times :þ Then my parents went home to the States for 2 weeks when I was 19, and told me I was mature enough to stay in Cyprus alone. Ha! I drove their little Mazda 323 all around Nicosia, which if I had gotten in an accident, would have gotten us kicked out of the country and bankrupted to boot. Luckily, nothing happened, but I did get myself busted because I'd left something in the car that told them I'd been using it. St00pid!!</blockquote>

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