21.   An adult was what the juvenile of a species was destined, with luck and patience, eventually to become.

22.   An adult is able to organize the random emotions and events of his or her life into a memory, a rough meaning, a story.

23.   And government cannot guarantee that adults everywhere will be willing to step up to the plate and address reality.

24.   And adults will be bored silly.

25.   And adults also are reluctant to express gratitude and appreciation to one another.

26.   And as more boomers become parents, they want to teach their children to recognize that adults are not their peers.

27.   And there were many adults who crowded into hospital emergency rooms with burns and other injuries from fireworks.

28.   And these adults are probably victims in a long line of damaged human beings.

29.   And they want adults to be adults.

30.   And you want to know why there are no adults around.