At this instant you are as old as you’ve ever been in your life. Of course that is true with this instant, too. But by the time you have read down to here, the person you were when you began, almost three sentences ago, is relatively young, or make that ‘was’ since now ‘is’ and then ‘was’.
So when you’re feeling old, you’re absolutely right. At t…
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