second childhood
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Nothing can stop André's skid into second childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2020
This is why it was called a second childhood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016
Perhaps as one advances into second childhood one recovers something of first childhood's appetite for treats.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
Warhol in the ’60s, looking back to a decade earlier—when he started to become well-known, to make and be able to spend money—may have begun, in effect, to live his second childhood.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2012
I was going through a second childhood; a new sense of the limit of the possible was being born in me.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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