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Age and Attitude Adjustments

From age one to three Your life's barely startin', But it kicks into gear When you clear kindergarten. Then on to primary, grade school, And each stage in between, 'til you make it to twelve, And then finally thirteen. You've had sex once, you shave, You think life has begun When you burst out of twenty And into twenty-one. Then something horrible happens, It's the end of the line. OMG! You are thirty, Whither, whence twenty-nine? From thirty the decades Fly by in a wink, But before into dotage You totally sink, Try thinking of eighty As the new forty-two, And get up off your bum… You've still got things to do.

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Date: 8/5/2022 11:01:00 PM
So I guess fifty is the new thirty (thats what I tell myself now)
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Jim Slaughter
Date: 8/6/2022 10:43:00 AM
That math works for me! Thanks, Michelle.
Date: 8/3/2022 3:59:00 PM
Ha! Love the “ eighty as the new forty-two!” Also the kindergarten rhyme! The poem is wonderful, Jim…
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Jim Slaughter
Date: 8/4/2022 11:56:00 AM
Thanks, Ilene. Now, if I could just get my body to agree...

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