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Article: A BIG, YELLOW RITE OF PASSAGE.(Unwind)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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I realize that in other cultures, coming of age requires far more demanding rites of passage than in ours -- whether it's spending a year alone in the wild, or being scarred with a branding iron or performing a wedgie on a water buffalo.
But coming of age is coming of age. And I wish to go on record as being completely against it.
In a week or two, countless parents across this great country will stand dazed and powerless as a big, yellow school bus lumbers up the street, stops, opens its big baleen mouth, and takes their children away.
This happened to me the first time a year ago. I was supposed to be OK with it all. I'm still not. This is my ...