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Caroline O'Donoghue (The Rachel Incident) and Justice for Shelley Duvall

Gays Reading | A Book Podcast for Everyone

CHAPTER

The Gift and the Curse of Being Old

As an old person, I can tell you that the thing that's fucked up is, look, all of your aspirations, your dreams, your insecurities, all of those things, they don't change. They stay. What age does is, this is the messed up thing. Everything inside is still the same. It's just the external starts to change. The way that people relate to you is different. And it's also it's the gift and the curse. There's certainly times that I've looked back and said, God, I wish I would have done that.

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