Old age. It’s something we all have in common. We either are old or, with a certain amount of fortune, we will experience it at some stage in the future. But with old age, comes trepidation.
At first the shadow of being old is too far away to see or even to imagine. But with each passing year the shadow creeps ever closer.
While still distant in adolescence, young adulthood and even later adulthood, the shadow looms larger in middle age and beyond until one day, organically and subtly, without fanfare, it merges with the person, who has now become a shadow of his or her former self.
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