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<p><strong>In truth, I am getting old. But I don’t have to act like it!</strong></p>
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<p><strong>As children, we were told to act more mature than our years. As adults, we were told to act our age. As elders, we should act younger than our age.  It’s a logical progression, and way more fun.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>We have the self-knowledge and self-confidence to act as silly as we like! Who's to stop us? Who cares, anyway? There are wonderful stories with crazy grandmas as heroines, loco grandpas as wisened philosophers. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>I myself have always wanted to be an eccentric old man, laughing in the face of adversity, playing with children as one of them, not acting my age.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Now it's my turn!</strong></p>
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