15 Honest And True Realities of Turning Forty (Spoiler: It’s Not All Fabulous)

“But it’s there. It’s just sitting there, like some big dead end.”

With this now famous line, Meg Ryan lamented her inevitable 40th birthday in a scene from When Harry Met Sally.

Forty is the literal fork in the road of aging.

If you are anything like me (weak and delusional) the denial path calls to you like the chocolate in your kid’s Halloween stash. As a coping mechanism, I devised an aging system to ensure I never left my 20’s.

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