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"I stand with my mouth ajar while one girl who is 33 tells another who has just made it to 30 that 30 will be okay. There's a knack to it, she says, because 30 is when you say I am who I am. This is it. Just wait til 40, I think. 40 is when you say, Hey, wait, I am not who I am! Let's go over this again! After that, there's a few more surprises, if you get that far - that far into the woods you keep hoping you're out of. We slowly morph into revisionists.... It's pardons all round." (Margaret Atwood / Thirty)
