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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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- Nancy Gibbs
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- Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Nancy Gibbs: documented birth year 1960; activity date not established. Wikidata Q6962706, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6962706 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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