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    Getting Farther Going Nowhere Special

    JULY 14, 2012 9:42AM

    By Ben Brody


    Topics: travel, growing up, college

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    • 25 Ratings
    • 2068 Views
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    Extremely loud and indelibly close

    APRIL 10, 2012 4:28AM

    By icyhighs


    Topics: family, music, travel, growing up, summer

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    • 37 Ratings
    • 4367 Views
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    Raising My Daughter Not to Make the Same Dumb Mistake I Made

    MARCH 21, 2012 11:50AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: girls, empowerment, financial independence, growing up

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    • 13 Ratings
    • 3500 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    A memory of young adulthood--growing up late

    FEBRUARY 15, 2012 7:33AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: bob dylan, growing up, daughters, parents, food/drink, marijuana, academics, university, youth, education, books, life stories

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    • 7 Ratings
    • 1274 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Growing Up Is Hard to Do

    JANUARY 11, 2012 9:08AM

    By Sarah Khan


    Topics: growing up, parents, ageing, health, family

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 5921 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Getting Punched in my Stupid Fat Face

    AUGUST 13, 2011 4:31PM

    By Joseph Carr


    Topics: high school, lake erie, oh, ashtabula, growing up, family life, fighting, personal essay, nonfiction, memoir, comedy, open call, mortifying disclosures

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    • 5 Ratings
    • 597 Views
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    Breathing In Summer

    JULY 12, 2011 8:26PM

    By Dawn E. Bell


    Topics: summer, growing up, family, small business, small towns

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    • 15 Ratings
    • 1743 Views
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    Hope And Tomato Season - Five-Spotted Hawk Moth

    JUNE 2, 2011 3:29PM

    By Robin Robinson


    Topics: photography, robin r robinson, maine, phippsburg, coastal, nature, wildlife, love, growing up, growing pains, usery, boyfriend, tomato, red, moth, five-spotted hawk moth, hawk moth, comedy, animals, environment, catapiller, cardinal

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    • 876 Views
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    My Tiny Hypocrisy is Really Classical

    JUNE 2, 2011 9:40AM

    By Mary Richmond


    Topics: growing up, art, beliefs, learning to paint, classical and modern, tiny hypocrisy, open+call

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    • 21 Ratings
    • 4672 Views
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    My Ethnic Identity Crisis

    JUNE 2, 2011 1:17PM

    By Miguela Holt y Roybal


    Topics: niu, chance program, southwest indian, jewish, geraldo rivera, raquel welch, carmen miranda, cantinflas, desi arnaz, chicana, growing up, race, niu

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    • 1 Ratings
    • 1090 Views
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    Mother's Day When Mom is Gone

    MAY 1, 2011 4:26PM

    By Mary Richmond


    Topics: daughters, sisters, mother love, celebrations, family, growing up, moms, moms day, mothers day

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    • 3 Ratings
    • 844 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Cosby Show Nation

    APRIL 19, 2011 8:59PM

    By takingadvice


    Topics: open call, saved by pop culture, family, television, children, growing up

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1698 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    My mother, my beta-reader

    AUGUST 17, 2010 10:11PM

    By Max Lindenman


    Topics: sons, mothers, growing up, creativity, writing, parenting, childhood

    • Editor's Pick
    • 37 Ratings
    • 3226 Views
    • 61 Comments
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    I Am My Summer Jobs

    JULY 1, 2010 8:35AM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: summer jobs, summertime, adolescence, growing up, education, employment, life experience, work, root beer, birth and death, triage, osmonds, family affair, johnny whitaker, no this is not my resume, health, travel, pack light, comedy, humor, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 3057 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    Searching for Egg Foo Yung

    JUNE 3, 2010 4:35PM

    By Lucy Simpson


    Topics: food/drink, chinese food, foodie, growing up, chinese restaurant, racism, egg fu yung

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    • 49 Ratings
    • 2429 Views
    • 66 Comments
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    Torch & Twang

    APRIL 16, 2010 9:31AM

    By Ann Nichols


    Topics: growing up, country music, music

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 2502 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    The Scent of Books

    FEBRUARY 23, 2010 12:08PM

    By Karin Greenberg


    Topics: reading, love of books, growing up

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    • 5 Ratings
    • 2297 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    What We Talk About When We Talk About the Aughts

    DECEMBER 18, 2009 11:53AM

    By Matt Toder


    Topics: the aughts, internet, growing up, technology

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    • 24 Ratings
    • 4139 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Straight + Gender Queer = Invisible

    AUGUST 18, 2009 1:07PM

    By BikeLizard


    Topics: girls, boys, growing up, queer issues, but aren't you gay?

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 2642 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    Unparenting: A Six Day Lesson

    JULY 1, 2009 11:01AM

    By mamoore


    Topics: family, summer camp, growing up, tears, letting go a little at a time

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