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If you don't have your ears anymore, you'd be an adult. [It's hard to put it into words; the ears are such an integral part of his world, and yet no one's really explained things clearly to him. They'd had some sex ed at school, of course, and there are facts he's just picked up along the way, but he wonders if he's really explaining it in a way that would make sense to someone from a completely different world.]