“I had always thought of Eleanor Abbott as just another stuck-up rich...” – Narrator/Older Doug, Inventing the Abbotts ... Movie Quotes Database

Narrator/Older Doug

I had always thought of Eleanor Abbott as just another stuck-up rich girl, a flirt, a tease. But she proved to be a bigger riddle than I ever was. Jacey and I never talked about that thing with Eleanor in the garage, but Jacey never bragged about his conquests. When he went off to college that fall, I didn't feel particularly sad, I felt free.

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