Tag: adolescence, adulthood, boy, boyhood, coming-of-age, crossroads, deception, growing-up, illusion, lies, maturation, rite-of-passage, summer, teen, teenager

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.