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Yesterday, December 26th, was my birthday and I am 21...again. You know how some women, when they're about to turn 30 decide to be "29 again"; nope, not me, I'm 21. Someone on Facebook posted one of these quizzes, one about your mental age; well mine came out to 28, so see, I still don't even qualify to be 29 again anyway. If you're a reader, and hopefully a follower, of my travel blog, you can tell from my adventures that becoming and feeling "old" is not on my agenda.
Actually, I have my life pretty much planned out to the age of 200. "Impossible!", you say, but why; why shouldn't we all have expectations of a very long life and do what we can to make it all worthwhile? For my first 50 years of life, I lived on the East…
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