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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]48, and don't look a day over 47.

When I was a spring chicken of 45, a young woman (in her early 20's) who I had known for several months through an exercise class looked utterly shocked when I mentioned my 14 year old daughter. She said that I didn't look old enough to be the mother of a 14 year old.

I tell that story not because I look young, but because young people are super bad judges of age. So maybe she thought I was in my 30's (still a decade or more older than she was).[/quote]

People in their early 20s are very unused to what will eventually become a normal state of adulthood, which is that you can be peers with people from a very broad age range. You can work in an office where there are people at your same level who are 5 years younger and as much as 20 years older. You can attend an exercise class with someone your mom's age. This is very foreign to a 22 year old who has spent their entire life being sorted into very narrow age categories, and not even considered equal with someone a few years younger (because of the very different rights and responsibilities of a 21 year old versus a 17 year old, or a 17 year old versus a 12 year old. It takes some getting used to.[/quote]

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