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The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.


Annalee Newitz

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REBECCA RYAN Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
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MATT MICKIEWICZ Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
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CHRIS MULLINS As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.
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