Add to ORKGThe stories in Growing Young are linked with the theme of people facing the possibility that their best times have past. In it: a baseball coach eerily links memories of a lost dog to his current players, leaving him a social castaway. A man goes on a bender and burns bridges at a ten year reunion. A music teacher???s attraction to his student, and fixation with one particular song, almost kills him. A high school senior accidentally becomes a criminal when he realizes his parents have been falling out of love for years. Deserting soldiers hallucinate of baseball to reconcile the horrors they???ve seen. A father lying on the beach contemplates his daughter growing up. An experiment of sending ten year olds to war goes wrong. These stories a...