https://marco.org/2007/11/05/all-over-america-the-membrane-between-adulthood
All over America, the membrane between adulthood and childhood had been eroding, the fantastic and the personal melting into one, adult worries receding into a pink childhood haze. I’ve been to parties in Brooklyn where men and women in their mid-thirties would passionately discuss the fine points of The Little Mermaid or the travails of their favorite superhero.
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Absurdistan, p. 230 — yourmonkeycalled