The anecdote that introduces this topic, is the beginning sentence.
"When adolescence hit Frances Jensen's sons, she often found herself wondering, like all parents of teenagers, "What were you thinking?"
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It can be considered a memoir, Elizabeth P. Donner Houghton's rememberings of her childhood experiences on the Donner wagon train headed out west to California, in retrospect from the standpoint of an adult writing about them from memory.
Shakespeare seems to consider a self-destruction tendency inextricably connected with love, as it is love and the actions taken in its name that drive the protagonists of many of his plays to make the choices which ultimately lead to their downfall, most famously in Romeo and Juliet.
