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  • Meanwhile, bonding these two halves of the same coin is the Virgin, who left this life at the midpoint between childhood and her adult years, an eternal womanchild, stillborn in the process of blossoming, with a head full of storybook scenarios.

    Dead chicks ride for free Arbogast 2008

  • Her brother had been an improvident irritation, capable of producing only this far too pretty womanchild ... but he had his uses, even dead.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • She poured out on Godfrey the affection of a womanchild.

    Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

  • Califunya, it'd still fit with the basic idea of Lavender Diamond you have after hearing/watching her in action over the years, namely that this is a bright-smiled womanchild living in a world of picnics and bluebirds.

    Stereogum 2010

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