The indefinable line between being nothing but a child running around in a grown up world and a grown up suddenly lumbering round in the stultifying boredom of an adult society is by and large a matter of personal interpretation. As somebody who still occasionally watches Transformers and drinks orange Squash I guess my views [...]
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