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Old Doesn’t Mean Addled

They never saw their age as a limitation. But what about the rest of us?
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Waiting in the lobby, your name is called. A nurse shows you to the examination room. Annual checkup. “How’s it going, young man? How are you doing today, young lady?” What is it about those greetings that rub the wrong way? Patronizing? Saccharine? A thinly veiled sympathy card in acknowledgement of this disease called ageing? […]

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BTW, We’re Not Going to Get Out of This Alive

Introducing “The Third Act: On Aging and Ageism,” a new column by local author Ellen Waterston
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Unless you’re in your late 60s it’s likely this concept hasn’t registered, excepting for those, and may God bless them, who’ve prematurely stared down death. But look at the oblivious rest of us go! Then here comes act three characterized by a palpable, albeit subtle, sea change. Suddenly we get it at a cellular level: […]

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