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Lina was a couple of years older than Elsa, Lourdes, Sinita, and me; but her last year at Inmaculada, we were all in the same dormitory hall of the fifteens through seventeens.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

We all looked up to her as if she were a lot older than even the other seventeens.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Why do they go by fives, nines, and seventeens?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John