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Pain is temporary, no matter how bad it feels now.

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Listen seniors: This isn’t the best it’s going to be.

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It’s not the end of the world. Really. Seriously.

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The conversation began innocently enough when I opened a copy of The New Yorker at work. “Work” was a media lab for youth and adult camps at WHYY, Philadelphia’s public radio station and home to various young, sprightly and bespectacled journalists.

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Jenkem first came to public attention thanks to several news investigations into the living conditions of Zambian street children. They found that the children enjoyed in order from most popular to least: cannabis, glue, and that most scrumptious of confections, jenkem—with jenkem scraping out just ahead of gasoline…