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Article: Elderhood. (the aging process) (Column)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 5, 1994
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ONLY SOMEONE who carries Swiss genes, wears two watches, consults two calendars, and has weekly, biweekly, monthly and (two) quarterly editorial deadlines would be compulsive enough to calculate, as I did recently, what part of a century her or his life has consumed. It occurred to me the other day to use the calculator on my "only-nerds-wear" digital watch to measure what part of my biblical "three score years and ten" or four score years were gone. I used five score for mathematical ease, not out of optimism. It comes to this: at 2:19 A.M., October 2, I will be exactly two-thirds of a century old. I intend to sleep through this moment of passage.
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