Pansies (Lawrence)/Old People

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OLD PEOPLE
Nowadays everybody wants to be young,so much so, that even the young are old with the effort of being young.As for those over fifty, either they rush forward in self- assertionfearful to behold,or they bear everybody a grim and grisly grudgebecause of their own fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty summers.As if it's my fault that the old girl is seventy-seven!
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