Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults. (Julian Barnes)

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Julian Barnes

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