As a first-generation Somali American in a small central Ohio suburb, I have grown up between cultures.
It wasn't a surprise because I have grown up with them and seen what they are capable of.
The divide, oh, the divide: I had grown up with this great border at my back, and its quiet, unerring existence had penetrated deep into my bones and brain.
I've moved on and grown up, so I'm glad to see the show ending as it has moved on and grown up as well.
But this is what I've grown up doing, it's what I have a passion for.
Right then I knew I had "grown up" more in two years than the four I had spent in North Carolina.
Mr. SARJERI: I don't know, but I'm feeling like I'm living there - there are bad things and I'm like maybe not a grown up, I'm still a kid.
As the proud daughter of a Polish immigrant, I'd grown up on placki (potato pancakes) and kabanos (dried sausage).
"I've grown up a lot since last year and my game is much more consistent, " she said.
Three, should there be any different style of policing, those are questions, they are not knee-jerk reactions because the one thing that I think a grown-up politician doesn't do is just come on the day after and say I've got all the answers because if so it would have been easy enough to do.
When I was in high school, the coolest grown-up that I knew enlisted in the service.
I've got my kids now, they're my focus and I think I've just grown up.
"I have four grown-up boys and now we are going to fear every time they are going out, " she said.
Just about everyone in my hometown of Rochester Hills knew Madonna had grown up there, but I would guess there weren't too many who could point out which house had been hers.
My attitude, however, was entirely too grown-up-by which I mean cerebral, unspontaneous, and a bit grim.
"I think a lot of her audience has grown up, " said Christina DiRusso, a 23-year-old from the New York area who reckons she first happened upon Harry Potter at the age of 9.
Before my wife and I had been able to have a grown-up discussion about what to do (as recommended in those middle-class angst parenting books that we seem to have collected but never read) it all happened very quickly.
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Last time I checked, even cutting and pasting in the grown up world used computers, not glue and paper.
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In the grown-up years that followed, I came to love the smell of a New York City street fair, the sausages and peppers, the arepa fritters of fried corn and cheese, and yes, the funnel cakes.
It was no surprise, then, when about six years later, my little brother (who I will continue to refuse to admit is a grown-up) also signed up to join the Navy.
More importantly, he pushed me into taking a lot of it on myself, so that I could pursue projects as a fully engaged, responsible grown-up.
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This - I mean, it seemed like kind of a reasonable, grown-up discussion of complicated issues, and overall, pretty responsibly held.
We've been listening to 6 Music since it started and I feel like our band's career and this station have grown up in parallel.
"I think children, teenagers and people under their mid-20s have grown up with technology and they understand it deeply, " he said.
"It was the worst best idea I ever had, " Ms. MacIsaac said of the slyly grown-up treat, now an immovable fixture on her menu.
Even if they were bored and distracted, though, at least the kids actually showed up, which is more than I could say for the grown-ups.
But as a child, I loved it, not just for Carson, but also for the version of New York it signified: glamorous, witty, grown-up and, especially, nocturnal (even after I knew it was taped around sundown).
Having grown up in such an international city as Miami, Florida, I had the opportunity to work and learn within an environment where Latino participation was very strong in business, the media, government, education and non-profit work.
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But for those not lucky enough to have grown up in the 316 during the early '70s, "I Was Made to Love Her" was scarcely heard, except among connoisseur soul collectors.
As I explained in a book I co-authored some time ago, in an environment like this bankers have grown up as abacus bankers, record keepers of money flows who derive income from seigniorage, from the passive creation of money through interest bearing-loans and government-backed securities rather than from true banking, and from active risk management.
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