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The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about nine and eleven for girls, and ten and twelve for boys..
Jojo gains what Pop’s lost of his bearing. First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.
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Preadolescence means The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about nine and eleven for girls, and ten and twelve for boys..
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Jojo gains what Pop’s lost of his bearing. First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.
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