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You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

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Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

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What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just play-ground marbles, their bus...more

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The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between e...more

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She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.