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This episode of This American Life explores the emotional turbulence and social complexity of middle school through personal stories, revealing how identity, peer dynamics, and survival strategies shape adolescence. It lands because it validates the universal pain of growing up while of
This episode of This American Life explores the emotional turbulence and social complexity of middle school through personal stories, revealing how identity, peer dynamics, and survival strategies shape adolescence. It lands because it validates the universal pain of growing up while of
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Ira GlassAnnieAlex BlumbergLinda PerlsteinDomingo MartinezJonathan MenjivarMs. DavisSarah KoenigShannon Grande
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