It's rarely delivered with such passion, good humor and sympathy for our floundering, faltering, yearning adolescent selves.

Choosing to examine her own adolescent self in public had an unexpected benefit for Ms. Cary, however.

Rojer was coping with the new improved Rhodri Eagle, so unlike his disagreeable adolescent self.

The Jeremy in his 20's who is narrating understands more than his adolescent self about the intertwined conflicts of hate and love.

And if Zori was anything like her own adolescent self, she could never believe that Stella really knew what she was feeling.

Asked to recall her adolescent self, Ms. Lincoln, who is 34, said: "I was getting into fights.

It's as if medical training had served only to compound the shocked prurience of Céline's adolescent self.

Like it or not, Evans is now in the position of having to compete with her adolescent self.

"It's very easy to slide back into your adolescent self, and the parents into the care-taking role."

That leads to situations, he said, where "you find the kid retreating into their sullen adolescent self."