As years went by Mr. Schaefer increasingly focused Claire's on the teenage and preteen markets.

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As a preteen, Ms. Krall spent hours listening to her father's vast collection of 78-rpm records.

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Under the proposed changes, permission from the parent of a preteen must be verifiable.

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Their brand originally was aimed at the preteen audience with posters, t-shirts and dolls.

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Back when cell phones were costly and clunky, it would have been practically unthinkable to give one to a preteen.

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Lyra is a fearless little preteen damsel, who does not like even the suggestion that she might ever be a damsel in distress.

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From Lindsay (jail, again) to Vanessa (naked pictures) to Britney (shaved head), preteen celebs all-grown up have become something to fear.

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Amend works with a preteen who is taking a math class at a local university on topics more advanced than calculus.

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This year, DHS is focusing its message on that glorious little device that inspires adults to line up in front of Apple stores like preteen girls on the opening day of a new Twilight movie: the smartphone.

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This weekend also brings Atonement, in which a lie told by a 13-year-old schoolgirl wrecks a number of lives, and Grace Is Gone, in which a man trying to shield his preteen daughters from tragedy discovers that they're more resilient than he is.

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