“I don’t want the brain of my twenty-one-year-old self. Or the impulses or the bloody . . . inner turmoil. I want everything I have now—I want all the lessons I’ve learned and the experiences I’ve had and to know all the stuff I know. But I want to transpose myself back to the physical state of being twenty-one forever, with all my life ahead of me.” “Right.” “Basically, I want my mind and my soul to keep aging but I want my body never to get old and perish,” I said, pouring the last dregs of the rosé into our glasses. “I feel like we should be granted access to youth alongside the wisdom of
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