Who Are These Teen Freaks Who Fake Their Own Births for Promposals?
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Over at the New York Times, Amanda Hess has written an ode to the surprising sweetness of the “promposal”—the popular teen trend of asking someone to prom in an elaborate, often goofy, and always grand way. But hidden in the piece is something far more confusing to me, a bona fide adult, than the already confusing promposal practice.
Within the world of promposals is, as Hess puts it, “an emerging genre”: Teenagers ask other teenagers to prom by staging their own births.