Lance Harlan asked her to go to a movie that Friday night. He picked her up, paid for their tickets and bought her dinner. Four years later, in June 1974, they got married. How times have changed. She just got out of a five-month relationship.
Dates usually mean dinner and a movie.
But the relationship was foreign to her mother, who doesn't always see the similarities between her daughter's trips to meet her boyfriend and what she considers dating. I don't know what it's termed anymore. I think it's odd. The generation gap is not really that vast, Mannarino says. Teens do more group dating than they did 20 years ago.