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adolescenceIn the human life cycle, the period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I was in the flower of my adolescence, a-thrill with romance and adventure, dreaming of wild life in the wild man- world. It would have caused an acute agony to thrill from the morning twilight, all the day through, until bedtime; and even then would have mingled a dull, inscrutable pain and pallid hue of misfortune with the visionary bloom and adolescence of his slumber. After a wild youth, he had retired into a convent, there to expiate, at least for some time, the follies of adolescence. |
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