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Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.

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Stella Chess
Age: 93 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 1
Died: 2007
Died: March 14
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Child Psychiatrist
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