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quarter-life crisis

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quarter-life crisis (plural quarter-life crises)

(psychology) A situation resembling the mid-life crisis but taking place earlier, when roughly a quarter of one's life has passed, typically in one's twenties or thirties.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. Jill Lepore

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