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I have trouble remembering how old I am. There just isn’t enough spare retentive capacity in my tiny little one-bedroom mind to waste on another number, so I don’t. This hasn’t been a problem, though: I was born in 1970, so the calculation is particularly simple, even for me.
However, as I approach my thirty-fifth year, it occurs to me that I might eventually start forgetting how old I am not because I can’t remember, but because I don’t want to. I’m not feeling particularly old at the moment, but that may change when death begins to purple my horizon.
All of which agrees nicely with my Theory of False Stasis, which goes something like this: It’s not that people don’t change; they just find different ways to stay the same.
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