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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

Adolescence is a difficult time at the best of times, and especially in a smaller town - there's all these different energies going on.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.