what I know - by Elissa Altman - Poor Man's Feast
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A List, at Sixty.
On June 29th, 2023, I wrote this list on the occasion of my sixtieth birthday. It all still holds, and on the 29th this year, I will be adding to it. But for now, here is what I knew in 2023, what I thought I knew, and what I got totally wrong. This is incredibly hard for me to even believe, because I just turned twenty-one, and my mother keeps telling people I’m forty. I am not a good birthday celebrant; they tend to be very hard for me and always have been. I recently spoke to a good friend, another Cancerian, who described how we feel as utterly self-conscious. A spot-on description.…
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