Teen love can be a touchy subject especially where the perceived and actual ages of the characters were concerned. Kitty was 14, Peter was at least 19 since he was able to drink at a bar in NYC and that was the legal drinking age there then.
If Jim was the editor in chief at the time the romance started then I can see where Chris might have been upset if his boss yanked the rug out from under him, changing his mind about the whole thing. But maybe Jim got a talking to from his bosses about the whole affair and had to play bad cop. But honestly if Jim signed off on it, what the hell was he thinking? I don't care how innocent the relationship was supposed to be, prudish Americans were gonna squawk.
I've always heard it being down to Shooter's personal distaste for it, but it's entirely possible that there's more to the story than meets the eye. Either way, I think he was probably right to end it, since it was moving way beyond a one-sided teenage crush.
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If Jim was the editor in chief at the time the romance started then I can see where Chris might have been upset if his boss yanked the rug out from under him, changing his mind about the whole thing. But maybe Jim got a talking to from his bosses about the whole affair and had to play bad cop. But honestly if Jim signed off on it, what the hell was he thinking? I don't care how innocent the relationship was supposed to be, prudish Americans were gonna squawk.
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