adulthood
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With all of her adulthood realizations, Tomlinson also reflects on what she wishes she could tell her younger self.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Skills that help you survive childhood can screw you up in adulthood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Eventually, adulthood is supposed to mean meeting the vegetable on its own terms — and, preferably, enjoying it.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Even after children reach adulthood, parents may continue to see them as needing protection, rather than as capable of confronting difficult truths.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
And that afternoon she seemed to accept the idea, granted me the right, the freedom so crucial to adulthood, to become a person very different in public from the person I am at home.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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