These people are not normal:
Her parents told sex jokes around the dinner table and wrote explicit rap songs for friends’ birthdays. She grew up in Lockridge, an intentional community off Turkey Farm Road in Orange County, where community members own their own homes and share ownership of common land. It’s a liberal, extended-family kind of community, the sort where Mom and Dad shielded Amber from violence as a youngster. Talking about sex with their only child was another matter.
“Nothing was off-limits in terms of a question,” says dad Roger, who works in neurobiology and nerve-regeneration research at the VA Hospital in Durham and is an associate professor of surgery at Duke University.
And what, pray, is “an intentional community”? This is the kind of jargonistic term that any competent reporter would explain for the reader, rather than using it undefined to show oneness with the interviewee and superiority to the actual reader.
(h/t: Joe Coletti)
