- …..as the birthdays came and retreated now like so much melting snow in the early springtime, he of course felt older–but undeniably much wiser also! Those things that are most important in life were now becoming increasingly clear to him and moving into sharper focus, issues that were quite hazy or even shrouded in secrecy when he was young and virile and so full of himself that by all rights he should have burst wide open and spilled innards all over his immediate surroundings. And thus he accepted these advancing years with no small degree of consolation, because while his eyesight, hearing, and reflexes were ineluctably failing him as the days and weeks and years that had been allotted to him gradually washed away, his appreciation for life–coupled with the surefire happiness that invariably accompanies same–were growing by veritable leaps and bounds…..
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