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Among the Talamancan tribes of former days, a man went up to a child-girl’s mother to arrange for their wedding at age twelve “or puberty” (menarche at age 12-14). During this period “the girl would become accustomed to the man and would run to meet him on his visits to receive some little gift” (Stone, 1962:p28)[1]. The custom had “almost entirely disappeared”. Today, “[t]en-year-old girls may talk about novios and exchange love notes with boys, but usually only at fifteen or sixteen do they begin going out alone with boys […]” (Biesanz et al., 1999:p181)[2].
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