REBECCA DUBE, The Globe and Mail

When Sharon Hyman was a little girl, she couldn't wait to grow up. She felt sure adulthood would be "one long Burt Bacharach summer," she says - glamorous, cool, exciting and sophisticated.

So she waited. And waited. And waited.

At 45, she's still waiting for that Bacharach moment.

"That's when I realized that there are early bloomers, there are late bloomers, and then there are what I call neverbloomers: those of us still waiting for our grown-up lives to kick in," the Montreal filmmaker says in her new documentary, Neverbloomers.

There's a bit of neverbloomer in most of us; we carry the memories of our past selves wherever we go. So the insecure 13-year-old girl still lives in the brain of a confident chief executive officer; that suave-looking guy commanding the attention of a conference hall still sometimes feels like the skinny nine-year-old who was always picked last for baseball.

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