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A Lot of Things Will Get Right When You're 18 (From a Teen)

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A Lot of Things Will Get Right When You're 18 (From a Teen)
A Lot of Things Will Get Right When You're 18 (From a Teen) “A lot of things will get right when you're eighteen,” said a teen. But who's gonna tell her that's a fantasy? That eighteen is just a number, ranked a little higher than the others? Who's gonna inform her that the path remains the same, just a little less straight? Who's gonna tell her that sometimes, she'll stare at the moon because she can't look at the stars without crying? “A lot of things will get right when you're eighteen,” she said. But nobody told her that the right things are always on the left...

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