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...will be able to reverse the tracheotomy and remove the breathing tube. In the meantime, Medicare has run out, and we're facing a $300-a-day bill for care. At times it seems the horrors will never stop. Then my dad will recognize me, smile an almost childish grin of delight when I say my name, and it all seems worth...
...there is no childish frivolity on display as she navigates her newly acquired apartment in a leafy suburb of northwest London. (Her home is a five-minute drive from Willesden Green, where her novel is set and where her mother and two younger brothers reside.) Smith strides past the living room, which is cluttered with half-opened boxes and iconography (a portrait of Billie Holiday, another of Marilyn Monroe and magazines featuring Madonna on the cover--"It's my life's ambition to meet her," she explains). Entering a tiny study, she plops herself down and begins rolling a cigarette...
Elian Gonzalez: Childish Gambino...
...teenager. Think about it. While the country has always had adolescents (human beings between the ages of 12 and 18, that is), it was only in the past 50 or 60 years that it had tens of millions of semi-grownups living in a developmental buffer zone somewhere between childish innocence and adult experience...
...Childish feelings of mini-deprivation like this are, I suspect, helping fuel a run on luxury products for kids by parents who feel that their darlings should never go without. The robust economy and stock market have created a lot of new prosperity, and parents are increasingly swaddling their children in cashmere crib bedding, bespoke baby ball gowns and tuxedos for toddlers. At the same time, they are worried that their kids take wealth for granted, and struggle to prepare their teens for a less lavish life once they get out on their own. Inevitably, some Wall Street investment advisers...