The Stunning Surprise of Age—and the Overwhelming Gratitude That Comes Along With It - Martha Beck
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The Stunning Surprise of Age—and the Overwhelming Gratitude That Comes Along With It - Martha Beck
Lao Yang told him that sixty, like sixteen, was the best time in life, an age where the burdens of one’s forties and fifties had been laid down, but the slowdown and illness of the seventies and eighties had not yet arrived.
She never tells her age, whereas Lynne flourishes hers. Clock up enough years, she’s in the habit of saying, and you can dance on a table provided you can still clamber up there. You can have sex with the mailman and nobody will care. You can flush away your push-up bras—not literally, you wouldn’t want plumbers involved, asking how the bra got
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