At the Senior Ball, teenagers in the ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hotel, beautiful teenagers in black tie and gowns, try very hard not to look like teenagers. But on the other hand, it is very important not to look like one's parents. The question intrudes on the ball like a gong from some great clock. It is midnight, Cinderella. Adolescence must come to an end.
American storytellers do better with the beginning of the story than the conclusion.
We do not know how to mark the end of adolescence. Mark Twain brings Huck Finn back to Missouri, to Hannibal, and forces his young hero to bend toward inevitability. I guess they are in style but like too in style. My friends think that my mom is really young. The Barbie Twins are pretty good looking, also.