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At the age of thirty, the Doctor asked K'anpo Rimpoche the name of the mountain on which he dwelled. He had been told by Old Lady [[Nine Teeth]] that it was called [[Plutarch]], where his cousins called it [[Lung]], and his friends at the Academy called it [[Mount Cadon]]. His mentor told him that the mountain had all three names, and told him that whatever he called it would determine the way in which it was climbed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Paths (short story)|The Three Paths]]'') The Doctor left the Gallifreyan equivalent of primary school aged forty-five. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')  
At the age of thirty, the Doctor asked K'anpo Rimpoche the name of the mountain on which he dwelled. He had been told by Old Lady [[Nine Teeth]] that it was called [[Plutarch]], where his cousins called it [[Lung]], and his friends at the Academy called it [[Mount Cadon]]. His mentor told him that the mountain had all three names, and told him that whatever he called it would determine the way in which it was climbed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Three Paths (short story)|The Three Paths]]'') The Doctor left the Gallifreyan equivalent of primary school aged forty-five. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'')  


Still a "small boy", the Doctor wrote a [[treatise]] on the [[chromosome|chromosomal]] origins of [[love]]. His tutor said that he missed the point entirely and gave him a "rubbish" grade. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wormery (audio story)|The Wormery]]'') When he was "just a kid" of ninety, he visited the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] stated that he was a terror until the age of one-hundred-and-twenty, claiming that he was a late developer. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'') As his [[fourth incarnation]] recalled, the Doctor was a "spotty teenager" for fifty years. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time Witch (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Time Witch]]'')
Still a "small boy", the Doctor wrote a [[treatise]] on the [[chromosome|chromosomal]] origins of [[love]]. His tutor said that he missed the point entirely and gave him a "rubbish" grade. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wormery (audio story)|The Wormery]]'') When he was "just a kid" of ninety, he visited the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] stated that he was a terror until the age of one-hundred-and-twenty, claiming that he was a late developer. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'')
 
As his [[fourth incarnation]] recalled, the Doctor was a "spotty teenager" for fifty years. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time Witch (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Time Witch]]'') The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] remembered [[hot-wiring]] [[warp drive]]s as a teenager on weekends, though she quickly noted that, on Gallifrey, there had been no [[teenager]]s, or [[weekend]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]'')


[[File:Vortex Butterflies Borusa.jpg|thumb|left|[[Borusa]] lectures the young [[Time Lord]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'')]]
[[File:Vortex Butterflies Borusa.jpg|thumb|left|[[Borusa]] lectures the young [[Time Lord]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'')]]
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