I'll Be Lucky to Make It to 70, Right?

I used to think, oh, I'll definitely be 100 because it's modern times. But then at a certain point, I stopped thinking that. And I thought, oh, no, realistically, I'll be lucky to make it to 70. That would be below average but also, you've already got to your current age. I've already won. The infant death spike, the unwise men in their 20s death spike. 30s is a good, safe, non-death decade. Then 40s, it starts to creep up again. Until the 110s. Although recently with the World War I coverage, they had quite a few people in their hundreds on there. Some

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