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In reply to the discussion: On growing older: [View all]RebelOne
(30,947 posts)75. I am 74 and am amazed that I have made to this age.
I have outlived a lot of friends and family. I am a smoker and have been since I was 16, so that hasn't killed me yet. Cigarettes killed my mother and my father; she had lung cancer and he had emphysema. I only stopped smoking twice in my life and that was when I was pregnant because cigarettes made me sick just to look at one. But I started smoking right after the babies were born to lose the baby weight. Now if I could find a way to trick my body into thinking it was pregnant, I may live for another 20 years.
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I second that. I like men, but haven't been in a relationship for a long time.
raccoon
Aug 2013
#111
I think it was on the "M*A*S*H" TV show that one of the characters was talking about a woman with
calimary
Aug 2013
#71
As one gets older, a year becomes an increasingly small percentage of total life experience
Thor_MN
Aug 2013
#17
I'm in a similar position. You have my sympathies. I'm 62, have been healthy all my
Nay
Aug 2013
#59
Congrats on beating the cancer. There's a lot of diabetes in my family history, so I'm
Flatulo
Aug 2013
#66
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
CrispyQ
Aug 2013
#46
Young people just don't understand that, on the inside, we're the same as we
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#51
scary when hubby still has a pic of my 19 yr old self in a bikini in his wallet
SoCalDem
Aug 2013
#94
I think what's remarkable about this thread is that I would have never guessed Anyones age.
adirondacker
Aug 2013
#106