"I never had anything to do with the boy growing up," he said to his hands again.
As a boy growing up here, that is what I thought.
I don't want to think about the boys growing up without me.
Maybe the boy will grow up into a human being yet.
But it also means that I wasn't around much when my boys were growing up.
What would it have been like to watch the boy grow up, go to college?
Still, there was a new generation of boys growing up.
You boys have grown up on some of the stories about the things I've been through.
The boys grew up with the same love of freedom their parents had.
The family was not a poor one, but the boy grew up with a taste for work.