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FritziKat's avatar

Youth exists only so that it can be destroyed. Whew. This was a fascinating read. I wish younger me could have read it, say, every 10 years. I hope older me will do so.

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Karen Anderson's avatar

Exquisite writing. Thank you. I just celebrated the milestone 70th birthday, causing this to resonate loudly within me. Although I loved the entire post, there were a couple of lines that stopped me in my tracks. "What, then, fills the void where possibility once lived?" "...you retain in old age a keen awareness of the decades stretched out before you, and you desire, with a bewildered sort of desperation, to make them count for something."

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