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[quote=Anonymous]To my 35-year-old self:
This Thanksgiving is the last time you will ever see your mother. Don't fight. Be a thoughtful, loving daughter because she will be dead before Christmas.

You will -- surprise!-- have a kid by the time you are 38, and it will be the absolute best thing and the hardest thing ever, especially because you will end up raising her alone. It will get easier once she hits age 4 , but watch out for age 13, when she will become possessed, but slowly revert to her more lovable self without the need for an exorcism by the time she is 17.

Even though you have virtually no extra cash for many years, continue to funnel as much as possible to retirement (even if maxed out will never be in your vocabulary) and start doing automatic contributions to a 529 plan BEFORE she hits middle school.

Do not eat all the Goldfish crackers and Teddy Grahams every night after she finally goes to sleep as a reward for getting through the day because you will end up 30 pounds heavier in 20 years.

It all goes by so, so fast even though there are excutiatingly long minutes and hours that tick by on those cold, rainy Saturdays when she gets up at 5:45 a.m. and you cannot deal with one more game of Candyland or you will scream.

You will be 55 and have absolutely no idea how it happened because weren't you just 35?[/quote]

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