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Growing Up
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When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quit
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― East of Eden
― East of Eden
...September 06, 2011 to October 06, 2011...
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Join me for a discussion of my book PROM NIGHT AND OTHER MAN-MADE DISASTERS, ten copies of which…more
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Author Q&A for The Mountain and the Fathers
...July 24, 2012 to August 7, 2012...…more
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a weekly podcast my mom and i host, answering questions teens have about growing up. we talk abo…more
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