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by James Kilpatrick
October 28, 2007

Twelve years ago, down in Asheville, N.C., an unidentified copy editor drafted a headline for a local story. The clipping still slumbers happily in my files. It was not the editor's finest hour -- or the reporter's, either. Our readers learned: "Crane operator electrocuted, in critical condition."

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Inside every old man is a young man wondering what happened.

By SHALOM AUSLANDER
The New York Times Magazine
Published: October 14, 2007

I live in a world of elderly children, of infantile adults, of Peter Pans with two mortgages and carpal tunnel syndrome. I live in a world of 45-year-olds in baggy shorts, baseball caps and garishly colored sneakers, of 50-year-olds in track suits and oversize white-framed ( Read more... )