second childhood
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My dad has recently become part of the family of Velour – in the drag community people talk about “chosen family” – which was part of my second childhood growing up as a drag queen.
From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2017
This is why it was called a second childhood.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2016
Greene, capturing the second childhood sweetness and mischievousness of Nagg, and Rae, making the most of Nell’s senescent sensuality, are as touching as they are hilarious as Hamm’s bottled up progenitors.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2016
Warhol in the ’60s, looking back to a decade earlier—when he started to become well-known, to make and be able to spend money—may have begun, in effect, to live his second childhood.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2012
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
