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On being older: (with welcome support from A.J.P. Taylor).(Devine)(Alan John Percivale Taylor)

Quadrant

| September 01, 2007 | Devine, Frank | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

LAST TIME I WROTE at any length about being old, I wasn't even seventy-five. Now I am a few weeks short of seventy-six. The additional time has been welcome and enjoyable. It has been accompanied by some increase in aches and pains and minor, mostly intermittent, physical malfunctioning, which I accept as part of the character of longevity. Unfortunately, many younger people, mistakenly defining being old as a state of being unyoung, are less comfortable than I am about my winding down.

Walking, I sometimes need to stop and sit, breathing heavily. Compassionate strangers pause to ask if I am okay. I give assurances. I am touched by their concern (and impressed by ...

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