Growing up won\'t happen on its own.
Well, because I\'ve got to tell you the story of what happened to me when ....
That doesn\'t matter to me now.
I suppose that the stories say something positive about Growing up.
These are the true Tales told with all of the mischief and funny detail of Real Life.
I was born after the Second World War in a working-class neighborhood in a northern city.
Well, more than one hundred fifty of them.
Why did it take so long? There needed to be time for a number of unusual things to happen.
Growing up took me over forty years.
It requires ingenuity and not being faint of heart.
Growing up is hard work.
You have to do something that encourages it.
Growing up won\'t happen on its own