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The third one was about recovering from a devestating car crash, aided by the ghost of a dead brother, tragically cut down in adolesence by said crash.
June 6th, 2003 colorwheel 2003
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The second one was about the ghost of a dead brother, tragically cut down in adolesence.
June 6th, 2003 colorwheel 2003
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I also know that we are in the beginnings of a paradigm shift in human consciousness, and that humanity will eventually out-grow this period of adolesence.
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"A Catcher in the Rye" was a milestone of my adolesence.
Inspired by SuperFandom of George R.R. Martin, my own personal beef with this. wendigomountain 2009
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Also Moffat refers to Ten kissing everything in sight and falling hopelessly in love as "The Doctor enters adolesence."
More Doctor Who Speculation... rabid1st 2009
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I also know that we are in the beginnings of a paradigm shift in human consciousness, and that humanity will eventually out-grow this period of adolesence.
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Kristi "Honey", What a beautiful story, I pray for my sweet MAX that he may survive his adolesence with you.
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I would like people to want it less return to adult sex and outgrow the perpetual adolesence of unrequited furtive desire.
Sex In 2050..... Newmania 2008
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Kristi "Honey", What a beautiful story, I pray for my sweet MAX that he may survive his adolesence with you.
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Growing up in Chicago, I never heard my parents or extended family use the word schvartzer or any other disparaging term for what were then called colored people, which during my adolesence changed to Negro, then African American and then Black, but I heard the term from kids I went to public school with and it was seldom in a flattering context.
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