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I've been tired of teenagers and their problems for a long time since "teenagers" first appeared and I'm a lot older than Lia Beachy so I remember when children became adults and the transitions they made were called "rites of passage" and they were dragged into adulthood kicking and screaming as they had been for time immemorial and nobody gave a damn about this false and phony waystation called adolescence which never really existed until the movies. It's the hustlers and snake-oil sellers that created this creature and the billion-dollar market that rose alongside them. If "20 is now 10", as you say, and "14 going on 35" is the focus of it all, then let's make "50 is now 20" and "30 going on 60" and be done with it. Yes, adolescence is a trying time, for all of us and especially for those who are barraged with it and wouldn't know a pimple from a pisspot, or care.
Great bundle of commentaries, Lia.
Steve Rinstein
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