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Methinks that there's a little Linus van Pelt in every true Fedora Lounger.
We keep a Christmas card address book. It's handy to refer to for friends who may have changed address. It's also handy as prompt.
How disturbing it is to realise just how many friends and family have died in the past ten years. Yet another downside to getting old.
Sorry if that sounds a tad maudlin.
We keep a Christmas card address book. It's handy to refer to for friends who may have changed address. It's also handy as prompt.
How disturbing it is to realise just how many friends and family have died in the past ten years. Yet another downside to getting old.
Sorry if that sounds a tad maudlin.
As my Dad got older the first thing he would do when looking at the newspaper was go to the obituary section to look for old friends.
In the last year or so I've started doing this. It jars me to realize that all of the adults I knew around the neighborhood when I was growing up are either dead now or very elderly, and all but one of my elementary school teachers are gone. The lone survivor was in her twenties when I was in her class and is now pushing seventy.
We keep a Christmas card address book. It's handy to refer to for friends who may have changed address. It's also handy as prompt.
How disturbing it is to realise just how many friends and family have died in the past ten years. Yet another downside to getting old.
Sorry if that sounds a tad maudlin.
As far, as I know, medicine says, that on my younger generation up to 50% will get cancer, in near future. And like I see, on the now middle-aged people and younger, that's very probably.
-daily mobile-phoning?
-birth-control-pills?
-women and her permanently hair-colouring > the upcoming masses of brain-tumors??
-dusty bigger cities, inhale rubber-dust from traffic?
-Europe, the long-term-consequences of Tschernobyl on now middle-aged people?
-bad nutrition > daily white-flour-products, fat, covert alcoholism, massive sugar-consumtion
-upcoming daily drug-consumption as a normal thing, Crystal Meth, toking (german) youth since the 90's
and so on...