Well, OK. Let’s be honest. There’s nothing awesome about aging. Once you get past the parts where you can drive a car and buy your own beer, it’s pretty much downhill from there.
You have to get a job, pay bills and taxes and generally put up with “adulting” until your body starts to crumble. Then you have the joy of everything hurting (on different days of course). It’s like “ouchie-spot” bingo.
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