Quiet birthdays are the best. Cancers prefer calmness, and July 9th was going to pass, and not be noticed on the other side of the world, in Taizhou, China. At 62, it is now official, Senior Citizenship and Social Security have become partners in my life, and the occasion was going to pass peacefully. Not many phone-calls reminding me on amounts of birthday-candles. Before I left Miami, one of my gentlest friends made it clear, what she thinks of the prospect of growing older, (she is the sweetest and wisest "lady" at 82). In her kitchen I casually asked, ... and how is life? "At my age a Bitch !!" was her quick response. We had a good laugh, and at 83, her husband's chuckle sounded agreement. They pointed out, that between my sixty-two and their
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