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Later in Life

She thought she was different from others, but came to see that she was just a garden variety alcoholic

When I sobered up at the age of 51, I certainly didn't think of it as later in life. Had I been asked, I would have probably said, somewhat illogically, that 51 was more or less the midpoint of life. That wasn't impossible as I did have an ancestor who had lived to be over 100, but it wasn't likely. Nor at my present age of 75, do I really want to live another quarter of a century.

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