At 80, I’m on the last lap of life’s circuit and I don’t want to get off | Stewart Dakers

Working with older people, I know what's in store for me as I enter another decade. I just hope I'll know when I need to let go

Eighty, eh, so how does it feel?" It's a question to which I have had to reply too often since "that" birthday. I have now lived two years longer than my father, eight years longer than my mother, a full decade longer than the good book anticipated and if the demographic pundits are to be believed, as a resident of the soft south I have another 4.7 years to go.

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