Kate Matsuda · 4 answers · 1y

We know age is a social construct though we all know that decay is something different. I mean I got wrinkles but not yet so much. But people almost always estimate my age ten years younger so so. And I met this person fresh out of school who was so wise and mature and somehow "old" in so many ways I could not believe her age of 20. I would have estimated her to be about 38 or 40. But her smooth face didn't fit. And then there are those guys I had in that meeting in Paris. Almost twice my age. Still boys. Still in the sandbox. Still ready to pee on the sandcastles of others. Never got beyond 6. Sigh.

And then there's your chicken, once too old to frit about and complain, into a stew it goes.

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