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Graceful Aging

It is no picnic getting old.  Infirmities accompany a slowing down of all the things we could once do with alacrity.  Acceptance of aging is an equally difficult task.
Charles Dickens once remarked that his grandchildren "are obedient children.  Their infant lives would not be worth five minutes purchase if they called me grandpa.  My name is wenerables to them."    -Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

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