The USA Is a Hormonal Teenager and We Should Treat It as Such

Come on, you were a mess back then too

Jill Francis
GEN
Published in
7 min readFeb 8, 2022

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Two young girls dancing close together. They are wearing tank tops and look sweaty.
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There are several decades of my life that I would love to send sailing off a cliff into a fire pit of serpents, but perhaps none so galling as The Teenage Years. Do you remember how hellish this was? It was the only time in life when it was considered perfectly normal to exist in a state of…

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Jill Francis
GEN
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American immigrant in Italy with too many degrees in Psychology. I write about everything I’m afraid of. jillfranciswrites@gmail.com