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Antonio Manetti

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Friday, January 9, 2009 06:07 PM
Original article: For richer or poorer?

Wait 'till You're Celebrating Your Fiftieth

Hopefully, you're both healthy now and will stay that way for a long time. Wait 'till your kids get into trouble, or someone gets a debiltating illness or the years set in and the sickness and decrepitude that's hard to imagine now begins to take its toll -- then tell those of us who are left how it's going.

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