Opinion It’s not so ‘terribly strange to be 70’

 

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 It’s not so ‘terribly strange to be 70’

By Anne Lamott

Contributing columnist|

April 10, 2024 at 5:45 a.m. EDT

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I turned 70 today, a young age for an older person to be, but it is the oldest I have ever been by a long shot. It has been well over six decades since I learned in arithmetic how to carry the one, and the rest has sped by like microfiche.

One big juicy, messy, hard, joyful, quiet life. That’s what my 70 years have bequeathed me.