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Prom was invented to teach teenagers manners

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Teenage romance had absolutely nothing to do with it. The formal dance was explicitly implemented by strict educators as a high-pressure, monitored environment designed purely to drill aristocratic table manners and polite conversation into awkward, unrefined youths.

Prom was invented to teach teenagers manners
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