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Tuesday February 25, 2014 The University of Minnesota Law School has a hockey team called the Fighting Mondales. And a chess club called the Fighting Pawndales.

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Lee Gold 2/24/14: "Thursday February 20, 2014 My birthday. I don't feel 71 years old."

Congratulations anyway.
Now close your eyes and imagine: "How old does 71 years feel?"

I remember sometime in the mid-1950s some public service announcement trying to get people to re-imagine age. "What does a grandmother look like?" the nice man's voice asked, and showed a white-haired lady in a wheelchair, knitting.

Then it showed a busy woman, shopping. "This is a grandmother," the nice man's voice said, and showed clips of her busy life, ending up with her going to a party with adult children and teenaged grandchildren -- and her mother, who was the white-haired lady in a wheelchair.

When people have told me now and then, "You don't look [fill in the age]," I tell them, "This is exactly how I look at that age." (I turned 71 on October 7th, 2013.)

Reply: My head hair is black. My maternal grandfather's hair stayed black till the end of his life. But I first grew a beard at 26 or so; and it had some gray in it.

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Girls, you had better hustle to keep pace with one 15-year old Maine maiden who drives oxen, studies Latin, and runs a saw-mill. VA1910

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Susan Cosmos ‏@SusanCosmos "The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different." - Peter Drucker #quote