My well-intentioned mother persuaded me not to reject any invitation to a prom. She thought it would be too traumatizing for a girl to get turned down for a prom date. The result was that I attended seven proms and not my own senior prom. My prom experiences spanned three years and crossed four high schools.
Overall, my mom knocked it out of the park in parenting, this one was questionable though. I highly doubt my sister would have been encouraged to go to seven proms. In her defense, I don’t think I would have had her patience to put up with a teenage me. I could be an irrational moody little asshole, like most teenagers.