I remember once hearing someone say that everybody, sometime in their youth— say around when they finished high school—should be given digitally altered images showing how they’ll probably look in ten, twenty, fifty years. That way, this person said, at least they could be prepared. Because most people are in denial about aging, just as they are about dying. Though they see it happening all around them, though the example of parents and grandparents might be right under their nose, they don’t take it in, they don’t really believe it will happen to them. It happens to others, it happens to
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