The "damn well put" award goes to... Julia Scheeres
Mocking one’s younger self is a middle-age rite of passage. The jaded grown-up derides as naïve the idealistic or altruistic impulses of youth. (Silly us: we once had convictions!) Underlying this sneering condescension, of course, is grief. We’ll never be that tender, certain or passionate about anything again. Life is half over, the glass half emptied. We slouch toward death.
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