boyhood
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But the boyhood trauma of losing his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, has dogged much of his life.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
To the surprise of many, including himself probably, Rashford is back at his boyhood club, having initially left for Villa under a cloud after his fallout with Ruben Amorim.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
My mother’s ancestors and my father’s boyhood and Sappho’s fragments and the sea that raised me are all still there, waiting, under a sky the color of alarm.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Trout built a family home near his boyhood home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
His white, sudden smile that he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Their locks are scruffy, scraggly; tousled for the boys, and wispy for those whose boyhoods were long ago.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Calipari gushed about Krzyzewski’s triumphs with the national team, and the coaches bonded over their Catholic-influenced boyhoods and their affinity for legendary coaches.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
The Bradford of their boyhoods had clean sidewalks and flowers in the alley.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017
It is the story of one of the most desolate boyhoods in all fiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
