Teens Are People Too
Leah Seal-Gray
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Posted 12.25.2011
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Lately I've realized that life is a lot like high school, and that adults are a lot like teenagers.
Lately I've realized that life is a lot like high school, and that adults are a lot like teenagers.
These blissful, halcyon times would end, and I'd be unceremoniously dumped into that hideous, dark place known as the real world.
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