Saw light 66 years ago today. Once there was a toddler as lively as my grandson, then an adolescent, and so on, age after a age to the out - on - limb stage I'm at now
So far from being a live in the past fellow, u feel awkwardly like a stepfather when my wife and children talk about family history. I know I was there and wholehearted and important participant, but I can only vaguely remember these incidents, if at all, and not with vividness, either as to the events or the emotions.
Around the dinner table last night, stories of family gerbils and hamsters had I'd all laughing, but was l there? I love my family but these lapses feel like a kind of dereliction.
All who have had this name have been fully there in the moment of occupancy. But each subsequent age occasions the extinction of the prior.
Thank God for a wife who keeps me informed about my past.
So far from being a live in the past fellow, u feel awkwardly like a stepfather when my wife and children talk about family history. I know I was there and wholehearted and important participant, but I can only vaguely remember these incidents, if at all, and not with vividness, either as to the events or the emotions.
Around the dinner table last night, stories of family gerbils and hamsters had I'd all laughing, but was l there? I love my family but these lapses feel like a kind of dereliction.
All who have had this name have been fully there in the moment of occupancy. But each subsequent age occasions the extinction of the prior.
Thank God for a wife who keeps me informed about my past.
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