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Although these puberal hormones are much weaker at this age, they will turn your child’s world upside down until he adjusts to them — or until you tell him in an age-appropriate way why he’s feeling so sorry for himself.

Most of it was extremely accurate but may I stress that although I may be 63, I have been well embalmed and have no intention, in foreseeable future, of passing on the active management to my puberal, 53-year-old, brush-moustached, co-managing director, Mr. Ralph Cobbold.

The congenital nature of homosexuality is displayed, not by the primary appearance of this mode of sensibility, but by the fact that when the puberal development takes place, the homosexual sentiments persist, and are not replaced by heterosexuality.

The case I have now to describe is that of a woman whose characteristics during childhood were thoroughly boyish, and who at this time experienced homosexual inclinations; during the period of the puberal development, however, the homosexual tendencies disappeared, never to return.

During the period of the puberal development, the normal heterosexual characteristics come to predominate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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