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I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at

I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at some seeming maturity when I was past thirty. It was only in my forties that I really began to feel young. By then I was ready for it. – Henry Valentine Miller (1891–1980), “On Turning Eighty”

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