"Every step that I take is another mistake," she sings, bringing childhood simplicity to a very grown-up set of emotions.
Before I entered the field of public health, where it's a given that health care is a right and not a privilege, I had grown up steeped in a set of core Midwestern beliefs: that you can't get something for nothing, and that you should be reluctant to impose on others and, likewise, to be imposed upon.
At 16, while he was still in high school, Mr. Pergerson left the genteel Princeton, N.J., suburb where he grew up and set out for the bright lights of the big city as the frontman for a bluesy rock 'n' roll band.
"If you stand up in front of a group of young people now who have grown up with a certain set of stimuli their entire life now, and you now stand up there and drone on and on with a black-and-white overlay, you better understand that what you present had better have color, action, movement," he said.
In both versions, two sets of identical twins have grown up separated from their siblings.
The main narrative of the Mahābhārata recounts the growing up of two sets of cousins, both of whom aspire to a throne, the title to which is clouded.
Even in some parts of Kansas, where the couple grew up before setting off on their adventures, mention of the Johnsons can now draw looks of puzzlement.
Indeed, many have now grown up with the image of Charlton Heston irreparably set as the image of Moses.
In interviews, Mr. MacDonald said he had grown up almost literally with a set of drums in his hands and had been extremely lucky in his teachers: his father, his uncle and Mr. Belafonte.
All of us have the misfortune of having grown up in imperfect families, born with a set of designer genes that even millions of years of evolution couldn't tailor to perfection.
I knew other twins and grew up close to another set of twins, but we still got lots of looks and questions, especially when we were little and truly cookie-cutter images of each other -- aside from the fact that my parents, thank God, never dressed us alike.
