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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2023-07-29 11:52 am

It Comes And Goes

 He and I are contemporaries more or less. Early seventies. I may have a few months on him.

"At what age do we become old?" he asked. He said it like he was afraid he'd reached it.

"For me it comes and goes," I said. "If I'm striding through town I feel like I'm 25, but at other times- now for instance" (after a morning spent being excessively nice to people) "I turn into grandpa..."