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Miss Catherine is a boss. She totally knows that Robin stole the dress and has given her fair warning.

Agreed with Tanita; no actual person even in the 80s would push this far. I was there!

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I think probably the most difficult part of relating to this for me as a teen/tween would have been the sheer chutzpah and acid-etched nerve it would take to not only ask to borrow something ELSE when an elder had already offered a loan of something spectacular once, but to actually keep pushing and begging when they said no - pushing until they got ANGRY. The level of entitlement to that is kind of breathtaking. For me, the reactions/responses FEEL the most fictional, more fictional than a cursed dress or whatnot, because do we know ANYONE IRL who would be like either Cringey Beau or Pushy Girl??? It's definitely not a literary convention that would be seen as believable now. It's a strong 80's trope, the spoiled, self-centered teen; kind of a literary Baywatch.

Meanwhile, the plot of the horror movie has just stitched itself right up as the Grand Dame drops a fifty ton conversation ender into vacation small talk. "An institution for the criminally insane. Buh-bye now..." Heh.

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