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Uben

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2. Getting old isn't so bad......

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 06:40 PM

Dec 2011

......not getting old is. I always figured if I made it to fifty I'd be lucky and everything thereafter was bonus. I'm 56 now. Coincidentally, I found out a couple of hours ago that my wife has liver and colon cancer and probably bone cancer as well, but the bone scan results are not in yet. So you see, getting old is not a problem, staying old is. We earned those wrinkles and furrows and jowls, and you should wear them as a badge of honor. You are doing good by running and eating right. Those are two things that can make sure you get even older. I have made the adjustment myself. I am exercising and trying to follow a healthier diet. Already I have dropped 20 lbs, from 195 to 175, which is my goal weight at 6 ft tall.

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