The Unchanging Wonderful Awful Intensity of Being Thirteen

Being a kid has changed over the decades, but it’s also the same as it’s always been.

Shaunta Grimes
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Youth isn’t the same now as it was in the Gen X 80s, when I was a kid, which wasn’t the same as the Boomer 50s, when my parents were kids. When my grandparents were kids, in the 20s and 30s, teenagers weren’t even a thing!

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