Stop it..its not like you guys have not run away from home before at 16. Lastly at 16..its not like you didn't hang around with bad kids either. So stop it.
I wouldn't know. At 16yo, that was in 1998, I was too busy playing X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel vs Capcom, Final Fantasy Tactics, Xenogears, and Zelda Ocarina of Time. 1995-1996 had better video game releases but 1998 was acceptable. So yeah, I was doing stuff other kids were doing like video games and fishing. Intentionally running away is not normal behavior. At 16yo, I would've never gone to Ham Lake (unless fishing was involved). There's nothing in Ham Lake for a 16yo Hmong girl. In fact, unless you have relatives or business in Ham Lake, there is absolutely ZERO, nothing for a 16 year old teenager Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs to be in Ham Lake.
And like I said earlier, to be clear, I am also blaming her parents and the Hmong culture.
I guess I didn't really make myself clear. The fault lies with the parents and partly the Hmong culture of strict don't date boys, don't go out, do not dress fashionable like white American girls, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
So I'm not just putting the blame solely on the girl. It's a sad situation all around.