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Mary Wakefield

What’s to blame for a generation’s desperation?

16 July 2016

9:00 AM

16 July 2016

9:00 AM

Youth is wasted on the young, for the most part, and thank God for that. There’s nothing grislier than a teenage girl aware of her hypnotic effect on men, or a youngster who begins his important thoughts: ‘As a young person, I…’ These days, though, it’s not youth that’s wasted on the young so much as life, which is an altogether more troubling problem.

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