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...heard the news of Hiroshima, writer Paul Fussell, then a 21-year-old second lieutenant leading a rifle platoon in France and mentally preparing for the hell that an invasion of Japan was bound to be, thought, "We were going to live. We were going to grow up to adulthood after...
...EARLY ADULTHOOD...
...Researchers are linking Viagra to blindness. So now, aging baby boomers are ending their adulthood asking the same question they did when they began it: 'Can I do it just till I need glasses?'" --WILL DURST, stand-up comic and TV and radio commentator
...even possible for sisters and brothers to overcome ancient grievances as they band together for their parents' sake. As a child, psychologist Bedford, for example, often fought with her twin, Barbara, and her elder sister Margie. In adulthood, the three women harbored grudges and rarely saw one another. But in 1985, after Margie had a serious accident, her siblings teamed up to tend to her through months of rehab. The three of them talked through their childhood conflicts. Margie was their father's favorite, Barbara was their mother's, and Victoria felt like a neglected middle child. The women acknowledged...
...good reason, Mandy Sayer has rarely strayed from the maxim "write about what you know." Her vagabond life has been the mother lode of her prose. In Dreamtime Alice, the memoir of her early adulthood, readers discovered where some of her fictional fringe dwellers came from. Velocity (Vintage; 302 pages), a gritty prequel to that celebrated work, provides even more clues to the source of Sayer's creativity. Out of her childhood - from a bizarre conception in May 1962 to the end of her erratic schooldays in 1979 - Sayer has spun an Australian booze opera about...