Surf City, USA. Wow, CA girls -the legend. Better than being back in the U.S.S.R.
Many decades ago when we were always at Yankee Stadium I only noticed the smallest scale pairing occurring. We were not encouraged to mingle. A brother would have told us to sit with our parents. If a parent were someplace else, I am certain they would a grandmotherly sister to sit us with until parents were available.
Any couple or suggestion of a couple triggered discussion from everyone. My parents were severely ocstracized for marrying, an honorable estate. When I was a tween, very rarely a couple would emerge to be married within a few weeks. I always felt they did something wrong and disgusting. My mother would talk of her own experience and go out of her way to welcome them as a couple within the KH.
Counting the months from marriage to baby arrival was an obsession. Nothing happened which shocked me. Ex. My suck up JW female cousin who corrected everyone and older people with scripture and WT bon mots married a much older brother at age fifteen. It was statutory rape. Premature babies can only be so premature. She delivered a huge full grown baby. I cried b/c despite never liking her, she was my cousin and left high school very early. Everyone applauded her. There was no rebuke. Same sins were not treated equally. He was not prosecuted. What a couple!
Reading about more recent Witness culture here, I sometimes wonder if I would now find it fun. The JWs were much, much smaller in my day. Maybe the increased numbers made the WTBTS lose some control.