these are the days - beauty and terror
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the thing about tom
these are the days the thing about tom Lilian Jul 28, 2022 9 4 1 Share Lately, I’ve been nostalgic for the present. We’re getting older, my friends and I. Many of us are parents now. For years, I’d claimed that most of my friends were still childless. Recently, I looked around and that ratio is closer to 50:50. When did this happen? How did this happen? Now, quietly, even the stragglers, the late bloomers, the non-believers are beginning to get married, or begrudgingly consider commitment, or at least acknowledge the specter of one looming milestone or another. Our grandparents are passing onw
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