"What's amazing to me is that this late in the game we still have to settle our differences with rocks."
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caveman, cavemen, rock, rocks, stone, stones, difference, differences, war, wars, warring, battle, battles, battling, perspective, sense of perspective, settle differences, settling differences, argument, arguments, maturity, immature, immaturity, fight, fights, fighting, testosterone, advanced civilization, advanced civilizations"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."
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child, children, baby, babies, infant, infants, newborn, newborns, new baby, new babies, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, new parents, family, families, mom, moms, mum, mums, mother, mothers, motherhood, new mothers, new mom, new moms, new mum, new mums, dad, dads, father, fathers, fatherhood, new dad, new dads, new father, new fathers, raising a child, raising children, proud parent, proud parents, life lessons, learn, learning, teach, teaching, language, languages, fluent, fluency, bilingual, law, legalese, legal, lawyer, lawyers, career, careers, job, jobs, profession, professions, dream, dreams, ambition, ambitions, future career, future lawyer, maturity, grow up, growing up, develop, development"Dad, would you please go back to doing the parenting, so that I can do some of the childing for a couple of minutes?"
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parent, parents, childish, childishness, immature, immaturity, maturity, parent, parents, parenting, dad, dads, father, fathers, toddler, toddlers, man-children, manchildren, grown up, grown ups, sandcastle, sandcastles, beach, beaches, beach vacation, beach vacations, beach holiday, beach holidays, modern life, modern times, irresponsible, irresponsibility"When I was your age, I was an adult."
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parents, parent, parenting, kids, children, child, adults, childhood, adulthood, growing up, growing pains, grown up, grown ups, hypocrisy, hypocritical, hypocrite, critic, critical, adult behaviour, adult behavior, age, aging, parental advice, slacker, slackers, son, father, sons, fathers, loafer, loafers, layabout, skiver, matured, maturity, adult child, millennial, millennials, independent, independents, independence, mooch, mooches, mooching, moocher, moochers, financial independence, generation gap, generation gaps"I had no idea his constant barking was a problem. Thanks for letting me know you're bothered by it."
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midwest peace talks, mideast peace talks, mideast, middle east, turmoil, peace talk, peace talks, peace accord, peace accords, ceasefire, ceasefires, ceasefire agreement, ceasefire agreements, accords, middle america, negotiation, negotiations, negotiating, hard bargain, hard bargains, bark, barks, barking, dog, dogs, agreeable, good-natured, civilized, civilised, discussion, discussions, maturity, nuisance, nuisances, neighbor, neighbors, neighbour, neighbours, neighborly, friendly, friendliness, sociable"How's your spring break going, Jerry?"
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drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, spring break, break, spring-break, alcohol, alcoholism, alcoholic, alcoholics, student, students, 90s, underage drinking, teen, teens, teenager, vacation, vacations, holiday, holidays, growing up, age, ageing, matured, maturity, immature, word play, play on words, word-play, vice, vices, dweeb, dweebs, nerd, nerds, geek, geeks, dork, dorky, dorks, shut in, hermit, hermits"Your mother and I think it's time you got a place of your own. We'd like a little time alone before we die."
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pensioner, pensioners, senior citizen, senior citizens, oap, oaps, old age, old-age, senior, seniors, retirement, retirements, middle age, middle-age, middle-aged, middle aged, grownup, grown-up, grown up, kid, kids, child, children, maturity, alone time, married life, family-life, family life, failure to launch, living with your parents, cutting, apron strings, live at home, living at home, burden, burdens, grow old, grows old, growing old, adult child, fly the coop, flying the coop"This neighborhood sure has changed since I was a kid."
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neighborhood, neighborhoods, neighbourhood, neighbourhoods, town planning, town planner, town planners, city planning, city planner, city planners, property development, property developer, property developers, urban development, growing up, maturity, jaded, nostalgia, nostalgic, memory, memories"They never change. It's just that as we get older we develop a higher tolerance for dorks."
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kid, kids, child, children, women, woman, girl, girls, men, man, boy, boys, date, dates, dating, flirt, flirty, tolerance, tolerate, never change, immature, maturity, relationship, relationships, talking trash, talking smack, smack talk, trash talk, crush, childhood, puppy love, young love"I spent my thirties doing my twenties, but by the time I was in my forties I was doing my forties."
"He shouldn't have thrown that snowball before firing."
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snowball, snowballs, duel, duels, dueling, dueler, duelers, duelists, duelist, pistol duel, pistol duels, pistol, pistols, disagreement, disagreements, pistols at dawn, mistake, mistakes, regret, regrets, regretful, loss, loose, settling dispute, settling a dispute, dispute, disputes, fool, foolish, foolish act, maturity, immature"I like the book club. I just think it was more fun when we were a coven."
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book club, book clubs, reading club, reading clubs, reading group, reading groups, coven, covens, witches' coven, witches coven, witch, witches, secret group, secret groups, getting older, getting old, middle age, maturity, immature, immaturity, childish, childishness, school friend, school friends"O.K., here I am in the fourth grade, but is that really what I want to be doing with my life?"
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maturity, pressure, pressures, career, careers, career, path, career paths, fourth grade, 4th grade, school, schools, schooling, classroom, classrooms, pupil, pupils, student, students, education system, waste, time wasting, time-wasting, wasting time, ambition, ambitions, life goal, life goals"Decide who you are, Wanona, before you buy sheets."
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sheet, sheets, fitted sheet, fitted sheets, decision, decisions, maturity, grown up, grown-up, grown up purchase, grown up purchases, big decision, big decisions, identity, self-identity, sense of self, decor, decoration, decorations, interior decorator, interior decorators, bedroom, bedrooms, bed, bed, bed sheet, bed sheets, impulse buy, impulse buysIntroducing Peter's Cousin - Murray Pan - The Boy Who Refused To Stay A Child
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boys will be boys, maturing, maturity, matures, adults, adulthood, adult life, childhood, child, kid, kids, parent, parents, parenting, twist, spin off, spin-off, spinoff, parody, parodied, parodies, parody, grow up, grown up, grown-up, grown ups, grown-ups, growing, growing up, old before his time, bore, bored, boring"When I was your age, I'd mastered repression."
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repress, represses, repression, repressed desire, repressed desires, repressing desires, bury, buries, burying, maturity, mother, mothers, mom, moms, mum, mums, parent, parents, parenting, mental development, childhood development, dishes, impulse, impulses, impulsive, impulsiveness, chore, chores“I roamed the world trying to find myself, and then I came home and discovered happiness right here in my own back yard.”
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wealth, wealthy, high society, millionaire, millionaires, billionaire, billionaires, rich, riches, luxury, luxurious, pool, poolside, pool party, the 1%, the one percent, elite, elitism, trust fund, party, parties, meaning of life, self discovery, self-discovery, spoiled, understatement, gap year, maturity, immature, immaturity"The corn hasn't quite matured if it's still reading Ayn Rand."
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rand, ayn rand, randian, randians, objectivist, objectvists, objectivism, maturity, immature, selfish, selfishness, virtue, virtues, grow up, grows up, growing up, pretentious, pretentiousness, libertarian, libertarians, individual, individuality, agriculture, crop, crops, harvest, harvests, harvesting, telltale sign, telltale signs, read, reads, reading, reader, readers, self-interested, philosophy, philosophies, philosopher, philosophers, farmer, farmers, farming"What do kids like you know of life? Wait till you've lived four hours, like me."
"One of you will always wonder if this could have been settled differently."
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duel, duels, duelling, dueller, duellers, immature, duellist, duellists, pistol, pistols, pistols at dawn, immature, immaturity, toxic masculinity, settle, settles, settling, maturity, masculinity, stop and think, think through, thinking through, regret, regrets, regretting, overzealous, option, options, kill, kills, killer, killers, killing, killings, regret, regrets, regretting"I've grown, Carl, while you've merely mutated."
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personal growth, date, dates, boyfriend, boyfriends, girlfriends, breakup, breakups, break-up, break-ups, break up, break ups, growing as a person, grown, emotional growth, maturing, maturity, mutation, mutations, mutated, personality, character, characters, mutating, love life, dump, dumps, dumped, dumping, relationship problem, relationship problems, relationship breakdown, relationship breakdowns"All right. Time to grow up."
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