“The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.”
2002-08-06, 2006-08-22, August 6, 2002 blog entry http://www.nat.org/2002/august/#6-August-2002,
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