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Time and Age

When Jewish poet Layser Aychenrand escaped the train leading to Auschwitz in 1942 he reached Ammemasee on the Swiss border.  He had no documents.  Questioned by customs about his age, he replied, "I am one thousand years old..."

Time ages us but pain quickens the process.

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