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[rm]

http://community.livejournal.com/tw_flashfic/27497.html

This fucking broke me.

Also, I am not someone who particularly frets about growing old (perhaps because everyone tells me I look at least ten years younger than I am and I don't really have the crappy obligations of most people my age), but this put a fear and a sorrow into me I didn't know was lurking about. Woah.

It's been a long time since I read a fic that's forced me to go out and take a walk around the block.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

since we both have partners significantly younger than us.

Well, yes, but which one of them were you scared of being when when you read it?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Both, definitely both. I know which one I'd choose to be, but it would still be exceptionally hard.

I already look at a couple of friends my own age and how they already look and seem considerably older than me. I have strong suspicions about the combination of advancing medicine and my own impressive luck, but much less faith others will be quite so lucky.

[rm.livejournal.com]

My mother finally looks her age now that she is in her early-60s, but it took breast cancer to do that. She also drinks and smokes and doesn't work out. I apparently suffer from accidentally clean living.