11.   But too many spend their youth chasing a dream and, having achieved it, forget what got them there in the first place.

12.   Don King spent his youth running numbers in Cleveland.

13.   Eager gamer spends youth jockeying Atari, Nintendo, family computer, etc.

14.   He feels no regret at having spent his youth learning how to use a lathe.

15.   He spent his youth in Troy, Ala., the only child of an insurance salesman and a high-school English teacher.

16.   He spent his youth being expelled from a long list of private schools and taking on equally short-lived, mostly menial jobs.

17.   Her own youth was spent becoming a pint-sized adult with a singular goal.

18.   I spent my youth on a beach in Southern California gazing out to sea where my brother or my boyfriends surfed some of the best waves in the world.

19.   I spent my youth on the polo fields of Limerick and wandering the vineyards of the McCourt estate.

20.   Keller spent her youth between Schenectady, N.Y., and around Midland, Mich.