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““At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time.””

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But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

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“The age wasn't as important as the milestones.”

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Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

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The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

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