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Caroline Knapp on Achieving Adulthood

From First Thoughts

...In a word, alcohol is what protected me from growing up. That seems like such an obvious insight, so simple it borders on the banal, but until that moment I’d never really grasped the idea that growth was something you could choose, that adulthood might be less a chronological state than an . . . . Continue Reading »