childhood

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He was no childhood prodigy, no sure thing.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

He has been walking on the beach for more than 50 years, since his childhood spent in a 1960s ranch house three doors down from Domagala.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Ernst Baerwald’s odyssey from a cushy childhood in Frankfurt to his final days in a beautiful Berkeley mansion, with a long sojourn in Tokyo along the way, reads like, well, a novel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

He convinces his childhood best friend to let him co-host his son’s wedding alongside a “younger and flashier” wedding MC — played by Gold —who had already been hired.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

My mind was racing now, filling this character I now realized I knew into Togbe’s childhood stories.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo