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Do you know the effects of rejection on adolescents?

Tremendous. Some grown-ups just don't realize it.

It's NOT a 'passing phase'. I think it actually have a profound effect on the person.

Sometimes it screws the person up so bad. Sometimes they are lucky to find someone later who'll put them back in place; but I'm sure there are the unlucky ones. Maybe that's one of the reasons for unhappy marriages and the two-year-itch-divorces--because these 'unlucky ones' just settled for whatever came their way.

Anyway, the point is, rejection is a very real thing. And so is love. How can these things introduce themselves to us at such a young age?

'Young'. I actually said that. Haha. The pomposity of 'grown-ups'. Whatever makes me think there is a 'right age'?

Hai. :(