Darling Party!, The Park, Wednesday Evening

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The Darling twins were turning eighteen today, and thus crossing the threshold into legal adulthood. While that may have been a terrifying thought to some, it also meant that there was going to be a huge freaking party because they were Darlings and no special occasion could get past them without a huge deal being made out of it. So after sundown

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Talk to the Twins! [10/24]

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Newly eighteen!

Talk to Jeremy! [10/24]

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He was looking happy and dapper in his classic Zegna suit.

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"I love that we did this on our actual birthday," Juliet told him, and reached out to pick a fleck of fluff off his blazer. "It breaks up the week."

The week in which she had three entire classes, yes.

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"Totally does," Jeremy agreed heartily. He had two classes. (And a workshift, but really now. None of that was much work.) "Think we did pretty good too. I mean you could almost imagine we're home."

Almost. Not really.

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"Like if we had the party in Central Park?" Juliet asked, smiling wistfully. "I can see that. Almost."

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"I mean, for as long as you don't look at how the squirrels have fedoras and notepads."

There were other differences too, probably.

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Juliet scrunched her nose. "I still can't figure out where they find pencils that small."

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Jeremy shrugged, not too bothered by it even though he was thinking about it. "I don't know, maybe whoever runs radio gets them especially made? How much can pencils cost, anyway?"

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"A dollar each?" Juliet had no idea. "Maybe I should try out for radio next term. They always know everything."

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"But do you really want to know everything?"

Jeremy thought he sounded philosophical, saying that.

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"Yes," Juliet said, then went philosophical herself. "Maybe. I don't know. Not the really sad stuff."

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So this was what being eighteen would do to them?

"I wouldn't want to know most things?" Jeremy offered. "I like knowing just... just enough, you know?"

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Yes. Get them to 21 and they'd be reading Nietzsche.

"I guess," Juliet said. "I mean, if you know too much you'd be all distracted all the time, right? Maybe it's better to know a lot about a few things."

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"Totally." Like he knew a lot about anything, really. "I mean, too much knowledge has to be distracting. How would you even sleep with that much stuff in your head?"

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"Maybe they don't," Juliet suggested. "Maybe that's why really smart people are usually kind of pale and tired-looking."

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"Exactly! See, it's totally unhealthy." He nodded, and went tio put his arm around her shoulders. "We should just focus on knowing a lot about some things. Like birthday parties."