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“This is why adulting became a verb.”

She laughs. “Oh my God, you’re an English teacher. You’re supposed to hate that.”

“Not at all. In fact, I don’t know why it hasn’t been a verb for centuries. Our parents had to deal with this shit too, didn’t they?”

“Yes, but they’d tell you they weren’t as coddled as children as we were, and that’s why adulthood wasn’t a brutal a wakeup call for them