Generation Stuck
       

Cut yourself and you'll get lockjaw,
our mothers warned. Scowl and your face
wiii freeze like that. Every TV rerun
had a quicksand episode: Gilligan
or the kid from Land of the Lost
sinking up to his neck. Decades later:
screens, cubicles, debt, regret.

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