Coming-of-age is a literary term to describe the passage from childhood to adulthood, from a state of innocence to a state of experience. Most writing about the teenage years is about coming-of-age, for that is the point of those years. We slip free of the protection and constraints of childhood and step into the vulnerability and freedom of adulthood, and we know it.
Susan Carol Hauser, You Can Write a Memoir, 2001
Susan Carol Hauser, You Can Write a Memoir, 2001
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