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BY PEER OPPENHEIMER
As Piper grew up, she faced all the problems of teenagers. Mom didn't interfere — just planted good ideas!
THE THINGS MOM
NEVER SAID
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A girl can learn a lot from experience — and a mother who never shows her guiding hand !
• Even her closest friends in Hollywood didn’t realize how close Piper came to getting married a short time ago. They might have been even more surprised had they known that it was the refusal of Piper’s mother to interfere that was instrumental in making up Piper’s mind!
The evening Piper walked into her mother’s bedroom, Mrs. Jacobs knew instantly her daughter was facing a crisis. She also had a strong notion what it was all about.
“Mom . . . you know whom I’ve been seeing these past few months . . .”
“Yes, dear. . . .”
“Frankly . . .” she hesitated a few seconds, “I don’t know if we are right for one another. And we have religious differences, too. . . .”
Mrs. Jacobs agreed with her daughter, but she didn’t say so. The decision, she felt, was up to Piper.
“Why don’t you talk it over with someone of his own faith. Be frank with him. See what he has to suggest. Then make up your mind. . . .”
The following afternoon, they drove to a near-by
ackwell • Piper is in “Dawn at Socorro"
church. While Mrs. Jacobs waited in the car, Piper went inside to see the clergyman who was of the same faith as the man she loved.
She was gone almost an hour. When she came back to the car, she quietly asked her mother to take her home and spent the rest of the afternoon in her room by herself, thinking.
When Piper joined her mother just before supper, her mind was made up. “I’ll start dating again,” she announced. Her mother knew ( Continued on page 101)
There were reasons why marriage wouldn’t have been right for Piper, Dick Contino. But Mom didn't say so