I've been curious about that, too. Regarding his main (first) post (linked upthread):
I'm wondering what establishment they both worked at where he was 17 and she 21 (and where he gave her a ride home):
- In Texas, most teens don't get their driver's license until 18, unless it's a hardship license.
Is that the law, or just economics? If it's because most teens can't afford a car, SS1988 did say he came from an "upper middle class home", & he might have been driving the family's spare car for convenience. (When I was a teenager, which was long before 1988, it was not that unusual for high school seniors to be able to drive. Most either used one of the family cars, or owned the typical beater that teenagers can afford.)
- Irving is "wet", and if she (and he) were working at a gentleman's "establishment" (as has been rumored for those late 1980s years) I'd wonder at his working there underage where drinks are served--not up on the laws on that currently, so someone can maybe fill me in.
Who says they worked as a gentleman's "establishment"? It might have been a chain fast-food place that one really can't call a "restaurant". Or it might have been something like a senior's home, & SS1988 was trying to be vague & hide that fact. But that point is debatable.
- I'd really, really wonder at LEK dating a 17-yr old in 1988, because LEK was likely in her late 20s in 1988 (if not almost 30)...
That said, it's not impossible. Just falls in the 'improbable' realm for me without more facts or outside verification.
Here you have me going from thinking this story is 60% likely to 60%
unlikely. I had overlooked their ages until you pointed it out. From what I've seen of 17-year-old males (& having been one) not one would invite a 21-year-old female to dinner without thoughts of sex, especially one as attractive as LEK was in photos of the time. (And by SS1988's account their relationship was clearly not sexual, just two people hanging out a lot.) Not to say he needed to (so to say) give us a blow-by-blow account of their private activities, but there is no admission that these thoughts went thru his head before he decided that just "visiting with each other, watching television together, and cruising" with an older woman was sufficient in this case. Unless you believe his odd comment about LEK's "personal hygiene was immaculate" & that she was "a Lady" were his attempts to deal with this.
And why a 21-year-old would be seen with a 17-year-old is also puzzling. People that age are very insecure about being adults, & it's more likely she'd be trying to associate herself with someone older.
But, the biggest problem is, of course, the timeline. I doubt he met her working in Irving in March or April of 1988 when she was still in California May 20 (1988) getting that fake birth certificate, in Idaho June 16 (1988) getting the fake state ID card, and then in Texas, July 12 (1988) getting that SS# (with a Dallas-area address far from Irving but near other strip clubs). She would have had neither passport nor TX ID/Social Security # to be working at any Irving establishment, yet (in Mar/Apr 1988).
So to me, no...this doesn't add up. Though I like that he was trying to stick up for her.
I don't have a problem with the timeline. There are a lot of blanks in LEK's life, especially in the first years after she moved to the Dallas area. I think it's entirely plausible that she may have moved to Texas several months before she obtained the birth certificate for BST & used it to become LEK, & could have lived under her birth name for months after she presented herself in court to change BST's name to LEK. But that could be true & SS1988's post a total fiction; re-reading his post & seeing his claim that he was a 17-year-old dating a 21-year-old is what makes me doubt him now.
But you are right; SS1988 was trying to stick up for her. <modsnip>
