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...colorectal cancer cases in the U.S. every year - have a greater than two-in-three risk of developing cancer, compared with a one-in-24 chance in the general population. People with AFAP can begin develop colon polyps by their late teens (about 50% develop polyps in teenhood; others, later in life), and people with particularly severe cases are often advised to undergo a colectomy. Though colon cancer typically shows up in people over 50, in the Fry family, it has been observed as early...
...trashy youth: prom dress, beehive hairdo and the Association crooning Cherish. But there is enough sweet irony in her voice to suggest that she has looked into the face of her teenage pal Andie (Molly Ringwald) and seen just why the Fountain of Youth is laced with citric acid. Teenhood is the pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make the Iran-Iraq war seem congenial by comparison. Emotions newly discovered are unique and convulsive. She loves me! Life hates me! How anyone endures this...
Scotty is all too shortly a puppy in love. As he did in his first book, Lost Slimmer, Novelist Davis, 32, beautifully captures the long, grave dialogues on the borders of teenhood, the spasms of physical wildness, the sudden paroxysms of laughter. His adolescents are as real as any living writer's, unless the writer is J. D. Salinger. And there is a Salinger touch in the tragedy that follows. Scotty begins talking of marriage in 20 or 30 years, when "the entire social structure will be changed," and a sobered Katie realizes that she does not want...
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