second childhood
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My dad has recently become part of the family of Velour – in the drag community people talk about “chosen family” – which was part of my second childhood growing up as a drag queen.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2017
This is why it was called a second childhood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2016
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
The loss forces this bubbling man-child out from the guarded citadel of his second childhood into the rude, rough world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 1985
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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