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the main lesson of history is: humans don’t learn from history.
‘You will look fifty years old and I will still look like this.
He is ~20 at this point. His aging slowed around 13/14. He currently is passing for late teens. How does he already have the perspective to know he'll still look like a teen in 30 years?
She was now twenty-seven years old, and looked it. While I was, gradually, starting to look young enough to be her son.
Huh? If you were passing for just 18 then it would mean she birthed you at 9. Befriend a calculator.
They should have smothered her at birth, to be safe.’
Ok, so this incredibly rare secret angeria is also hereditary, yet those who have it rarely know others who have it, and are initially mystified by it even though they inherited it from... a parent? Nobody ever says "Oh, your Aunt Harriet has this same affliction"? Anyone with this would have centuries to bring forth scores of offspring, yet either they don’t, or their kids aren’t afflicted… BUT IT IS HEREDITARY?
