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Old age..?

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Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why, as we grow older, does time seem to condense, speed up and elude us, while in old age, significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real as what happened yesterday?

Yayayayaya...only 53 days left until my 65th birthday!!!!

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I am going to be 57 in less than two weeks.  You are right in that the stuff from my youth is more vivid to me than what I did a year ago.  Time goes faster now.  Sad thing is I am growing old alone.  I always feared that.  That's a fact of life I was never taught.  I had a child who grew up, married and had three children who I love all with all my heart.  But their lives move on, grandchildren become teens and no longer need you around.  In the end it's just me.  I don't have a mate and haven't in 27 years and counting.  Not even a date.