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My 71st birthday

on August 27, 2020

Almost 6 weeks into WW - And here is a photo of me. Taken yesterday on my 71st birthday.

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I will be 71 years old next month. Seventy-one! I have to say that time has gone into overdrive since 50. Suddenly I'm undeniably a senior citizen, and yet, I don't feel any different than I did 20 or 30 or 50 years ago. I'm still Carol. I'm still the young wife, mother, and teacher. I still have all those persons inside. Now I've added mother-in-law, grandmother, and retiree to the list - and so much more. Each person has so many facets - wears so many different hats at various times in life. We are so many different people throughout our lifetimes, and yet we never lose the people we were earlier This blog is about my 70s. I'm almost a year into my seventies. I breezed through my 30th, 40th, 50th, and even 60th birthdays. However, 70 hit me hard. I could pretend that 60 was still fairly young. I can't do that anymore. As I type this post, I'm sitting in a recliner with an orthopedic boot on my elevated left foot. Last week my foot started hurting. I h...

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