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[necturus]

I've been absent from here recently, dealing with work and helping a couple of sick friends. With each passing year, more people I know get sick or die. This year the chairman of the board of the nonprofit that runs my old college radio station was diagnosed with ALS, and another colleague of mine died of melanoma

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[queenofhalves]

> As much as people like to pretend otherwise, 50 is not the new 30 and 60 is not the new 40.

i think about this a lot because a number of the people i am closest to are ten or more years older than me. makes me not want to waste a moment.