He had taken a second wife, Asra, the thirteen-year-old daughter of one of his Palestinian campmates, discomfiting some of his al-Qaeda sponsors, who viewed the marrying of children as unseemly.
I have no idea why a grown man would want to deal with a teenager on a regular basis like this. It's one thing if they are your own child, I suppose, since you can live in hope that they will grow up and leave the house, but if you marry them... you don't even have that.
It's like the Twilight books, where the immortal vampire has been alive for thousands of years, and wants to hang out with teenagers. What could you possibly talk about? "I remember when the Black Plague was a thing..."
And everything is just so dramatic with teenagers. They have no sense of perspective and can't really distinguish between their favorite band breaking up, and being forced to marry a creepy middle aged pedophile. Both are the end of the world.
