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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 12:00 AM

I'm younger than that now

My knees are shot and my past is gaining on me. At 53, it's time to admit defeat -- and start living again.
By Gary Kamiya

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  • Monday, June 4, 2007 08:32 PM

    Eliot wrote this when he was.....

    Twenty(not fifty)-three. This article/poem/discussion aren't about age - they're about recognizing mortality - forget the when and who.

    "I should have been a pair of ragged claws

    Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."

    "And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,

    And in short, I was afraid."

    All human, all the time.

    —Sanders Read Sanders's other letters

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