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In reply to the discussion: How are we to feel young when our youngest daughter just turned 30? [View all]DFW
(54,769 posts)One daughter lives in Frankfurt am Main, some 200 KM away, but leads a life like mine--rarely in the same city (or country) two days in a row, and 28 hour days half the time anyway. The other lives in New York City, and we can't very well ask her to give up her life in Manhattan to come make tea for two fading parents in Düsseldorf.
At 30 and 32, we wouldn't call them middle-aged, and it's a title they probably don't want to hear for another 30 years anyway! They both inherited a disproportionate dose of my wife's genes. That means that while they'll have to be on a constant watch for thyroid tumors and breast cancer, they also stand to look like they're 25 when they're 50. My 32 year old still gets carded at bars. Ten years ago, she found it insulting. Now, she's thrilled.