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May 26, 2021

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Life Begins at 40

Everything before prepared you for your real life.

When you’re a teenager, the idea of turning thirty before getting married is the scariest thing imaginable. And when you’re in your twenties and thirties, you feel like your life will be over at forty.

I have found the opposite to be true.

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Life Begins at 40

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