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When I'm Eighty-Five

When I'm Eighty-Five

since eighty-five is the new sixty-four

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Apr 02, 2024
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During a long, picturesque hike through a remote forest, I had a simple revelation, or prediction, or inclination: “When I’m eighty-five, what I’ll most feel like doing is photography and fishing.”

Conventional retirement age was once pegged by the Beatles tune: “When I’m Sixty-four.” Paul McCartney’s retirement anthem adds lines like my own daydream, “K…

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