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"ref": "2008 December 23, Andreas Arvman, “Collecting grown-up points is about responsibility”, in The Honolulu Advertiser",
"text": "Collecting grown-up points is about responsibility.[…] Buying a potted plant: 1 grown-up point. Keeping it alive for a year: 10 points.",
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"ref": "2015 June 25, Eleanor Jones, “25 purchases that prove you've become a grown up”, in Cosmopolitan",
"text": "Bonus grown up points if you consider yourself 'addicted'.",
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"ref": "2016 May 9, Emily Yoshida, “The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 3, Oathbreaker”, in The Verge",
"text": "I was so looking forward to awarding some Grown Up points to Tommen Baratheon this week, who is clearly smarting over his inability to do much of anything.",
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"ref": "2017 February 27, Kate Shellnutt, “The case for going to bed at 2:30 am”, in Vox",
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