Oh, the practical jokes our bodies play on us in adolescence. If you're male, maybe you leave eighth grade as a boy and return in ninth as a braying, acne-peppered jackass with the libido to match. For the girls, perhaps you experience an awkward growth spurt where you're taller than the boys' basketball team for half a year, and in 3-D.
We all pass through that budding stage of youth, but there are those who experience the changes more acutely in a sort of biological boot camp. I felt sorry for those kids in school even while I was almost one of them. To those genetically unlucky juveniles, life's just a hot, humid storm of hormones, man.
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