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Until relatively recently 15/16 year old girls were generally already married (often to older men) and having kids.
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Jerry Lee Lewis, people. How soon we forget!
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In 1957, when he moved in with his bassist cousin J.W. Brown, 21-year old Lewis fell in love with Brown's 13-year-old daughter, Myra Gale....They courted on the sly, and then married in late 1957, not revealing it to her parents, with whom they both were living!...
...Their secret was kept until his deput concert tour of England. ...At Heathrow Airport, ...a reporter pulled Myra Gale aside and asked who she was. Myra, too naive to lie...revealed she was Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis, and that she was 13....His tour was cancelled and he was hounded out of the country.
Back in America his professional life collapsed...and Lewis found his bookings canceled, his records not being played...and his former friends...turning their backs on him.
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