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"The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence."
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"At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time."
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"The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence."
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