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On my 30th birthday nearly a decade ago, I paraphrased this old saying in response to a typical joke from someone about me getting older. The other person looked at me quizzically: “What do you mean it beats the alternative? Isn’t the alternative to getting older, getting younger?”
“Uh, no. The altern…
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