This is not surprising. Martha Torres Solano, a Costa Rican native who lives with my family as an exchange student, has a million questions. My mother lets me drink because it is OK at the age of 18.
Nobody does that.
Not our teen-agers from my first marriage, who never shook the habit of calling Kevin by his first name, as they did when they met him. I wasn't so sure. She'd come to us in November, after a neighbor who'd hosted a student through American Field Service told me about a charming Costa Rican student at my son's high school whose host family had rejected her. Not me , I thought. I'd just returned to work from a sabbatical.