No More Words by Reeve Lindbergh

Author:Reeve Lindbergh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2001-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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July 2000

I thought that when one grew up nothing unpleasant would happen. Apparently nothing hurt “grown-ups.” My mother didn’t kick or scream in the dentist’s chair, nor did she bite the doctor’s fingers when he examined her sore throat. It was a blow to realize that when one grew up one had to be even braver though the pain was just as hard to bear as before—and did “grown-ups” really cry? It didn’t seem possible but it was true. That was another proof that showed that things weren’t pleasant when you grew up.

—Anne Morrow, class of 1924, “Disillusions of Childhood,” The Wheel, Miss Chapin’s School, March 1924

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