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Mobbs? LOL! When I was 16 years old, I read a novel titled Harriet Said by British author Beryl Bainbridge for my book report in the eleventh grade. The novel was about a 13-year-old girl who becomes intimately involved with a 56-year-old man insofar as it leads to the murder of the man's wife. So many years later, this novel was made into a movie titled Heavenly Creatures. In the movie, the girl protagonist was 14 years old, and her forbidden lover was only 19 years old. By putting the two characters so close in age difference in the movie, the plot lost much of its shock effect that made the book a success.
RE: Redefining 'Age Gap'