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21 May 2022

9:00 AM

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

We all know ‘adult’ the noun, and we know what an ‘adult’ is (‘because,’ as a friend said to me, ‘we are one!’). But the idea of ‘adulting’ the verb – and what the action of ‘adulting’ is – I haven’t come across until now. (Yes, I know – you’re way ahead of me here.)

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