Growing Up
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Last published Wed, Jun 20, 2018
With the combined pressures of romance, family, friendship, school, and work, life can be a terrifying place. Especially high school, when all those things are bottled up and ignited by the fact that no one really knows how to deal with it yet.
So maybe growing up is a bit harder than we all thought it would be. And maybe it would be easier if we weren't so focused on living through it to process it logically. Regardless, it happens to everyone, at different times and at different rates and in different ways. So I guess we're just going to have to grow up and live with it.
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