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if you're at all close to me in age (and you seem to be not that far), I have to give your mom a lot of credit for her prescience. pretty fucking brilliant. if she's still around, please quote me to her.

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Alas, she's been gone for 23 years. If it hadn't been for the MS, she might still be around. Her couch potato sister with the decadent diet (as a kid I LOVED visiting my aunt and uncle's house) lived to be 90, and a cousin of theirs made it to 104. (My mother exercised until the stroke, despite the disability--swimming, and riding a British racing tricycle, with help getting on and off from my father, who rode with her. And, yes, my mother was brilliant. Brilliant family. My mother and her sister both had PhDs (and my mother could easily have had a second one). Their mother had a PhD (labor relations, 1915).

As for my age, I was born in the first year of the Eisenhower Administration.

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A mere child! :-)

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my sentiment exactly. I have four years on you and Tom has four on me. do you think this might somehow be...MEANINGFUL?

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Hardly. I'm 154 in base six.

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