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May 18, 2021

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Live Your Best Life Now, Because the Future Doesn’t Look So Great

How a friend’s predictions of the future changed my mind about getting older

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The last few birthdays have left me overwhelmed with frustration.

Because no matter how times I told myself that “age is just a number,” I couldn’t dispel the…

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Live Your Best Life Now, Because the Future Doesn’t Look So Great

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