For one thing, they've spent their whole lives maneuvering around their crazy, strict parents.

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Young lovers in Victorian England, forbidden to express their affection in public and fearful that strict parents would intercept their billets-doux, sent coded messages through the personal columns in newspapers.

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Their parents were strict and so were the nuns at school, but he knew of no such trauma.

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My parents were strict when it came to what we ate, and believe me when I say it sucked.

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His parents were strict about that.

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But he was such a poor student that his parents sent him to a strict boarding school, where the students were assigned cadet drills.

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Just like with movies, some parents will be more lax and others more strict.

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Still, other parents weren't happy to be spending precious free time in an auditorium, and some teens attendees didn't appreciate their parents being clued in on the requirements of the state's strict Graduated Drivers License law.

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