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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the helpful comments and great perspective. My original post may have come off as too much about my changing appearance. It's that, of course, but also the sense that my body isn't as strong as it once was, that aches and pains (and worse) may be the new normal, and that my path in the world, once a wide road stretching endlessly in front me, is growing narrower and has a definitive end looming in the distance. It's a time of life when I have to work harder -- physically, especially, but psychologically, too -- just to try to keep what I had before (energy, optimism about the future, the sense that adventures await). But I also realize, as folks have pointed out, that things can and do get worse. And certainly some people have their youth stolen from them by illness at a very early age, and I'm very sorry for that. The key word someone used may have been "acceptance." I'm just trying to get there. I'm 49, btw. Thanks again all![/quote]
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