childhood

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"The last Messi is always the best Messi," Pablo Aimar - his childhood idol - once said.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

One day he wandered into the Fashion District and bumped into a childhood friend who told him there was money to be made selling dresses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Parsons said liminal spaces all share a quality of feeling familiar: hearkening fragments of distant memories or experiences during childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

For a second opinion with close ties to childhood nonsense, I asked my Magic 8 Ball.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

They’d grown so much in the time he’d been gone, yet they were still little girls, clinging to their childhood and their need for his love.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall