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Martha
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Posted: March 27 2006 at 2:56pm \| IP Logged

http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0508/opinion/green.htm l

I really identified with this article link I received this morning and thought I might not be alone in having wondered and pondered these very things.

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Posted: March 27 2006 at 3:21pm \| IP Logged

Just making it a clickable link for you.

Against Eternal Youth

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Posted: March 29 2006 at 10:49pm \| IP Logged

Thanks for the link, Martha. I enjoyed the article (and I have often thought about how "adult" the movie actors looked back then!)

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Posted: March 29 2006 at 11:37pm \| IP Logged

This was a fantastic article! So thought provoking. Thanks!

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Posted: March 30 2006 at 1:57pm \| IP Logged

Very interesting and gentle on Gen Xers which I appreciate.
I love this line:

"Being kittenish, or obscene, or adorably perplexed�we can do that. But gathering the gravity and confidence that signals full maturity is beyond our capabilities. It�s not youth that passed us by, but adulthood."

I'm afraid that I got through a security checkpoint at a museum just the other day by being something between kittenish and adorably perplexed (maybe friendly and temporarily illiterate would be a description?). My friend, who is almost 10 years younger but has the maturity and confidence that comes with being a doctor, went through the same checkpoint. I got into the museum with everything I brought. She made the guard mad and had to check her baby carrier and diaper bag.

The problem is <sigh> that how we've been taught to behave works.

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