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To best understand what's bothering young people today, rewind to the 2009 comedy-drama Up In The Air. Forget about George Clooney for a bit. There's Anna Kendrick, playing Natalie Keener, freshly minted Cornell superstar, who could have taken a job in San Fransciso but followed her boyfriend to Omaha, the middle of nowhere, only to be dumped by him a few months into her new job.
She's not just heartbroken, she's unravelling: "I thought I'd be engaged by now... I thought by 23, I'd be married, maybe have a kid, corner office by day, entertaining at night. I was supposed to be driving a Grand Cherokee by now." Keener didn't just have her life mapped out, she'd packed it so tight, it could only explode.
This story is from the July 13, 2024 edition of Brunch.
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