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* Subverted in one of the ''Diary of a Teenage Girl'' books by Melody Carlson. Current main character Kim is fishing for advice to give her best friend who's having boyfriend troubles; Kim's distraught father thinks she is the one sleeping with her boyfriend in a desperate attempt to stay with him, until her best friend turns up pregnant.
* In [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[The Tales of Alvin Maker]]'', Alvin is a major [[Weirdness Magnet]]; unfortunately, one of the things attracted has a habit of trying to make Alvin's father kill him while Alvin is growing up. When the father finds someone with a grasp of the supernatural, he can't even keep the pronouns straight. The other person is kind and suggests that the friend should apprentice his son somewhere else.
* Subverted in Charles Sheffield's short story "The Heart of Ahura Mazda" with young Jamie Murchison, who asks Dr. Darwin ([[Charles Darwin]]'s grandfather) for a medical opinion concerning a friend of his. Dr. Darwin admits — "I owe you an apology" — that until Jamie referred to his friend as a lady, he'd assumed it was this case, saying that [[Lampshade Hanging|nine out of ten times]] it is.
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