“…There is a clear path for continuing to make “easy sense” (Mazzei, 2014) of Rory’s narrative. Momentarily following it further, we can readily discern how the theoretical discourse of, for example, emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2015; Murray & Arnett, 2019), provides an especially smooth and sturdy heuristic for explaining what Rory said about “hav[ing] no idea who [she was]” during a trip abroad through the model’s forecast for her age/stage circumstances. The line of descriptive inscription is sturdy where, according to psychology scholar, Jeffery Arnett (2015), “based on my research over the past 20 years” (p. 8) there is clear evidence that a new stage of development exists between adolescence and adulthood characterized by five “main features”: identity formation, instability, self-focus, feeling in-between, and “ [p]ossibilities/optimism , when hopes flourish and people have an unparalleled opportunity to transform their lives” (p. 9).…”