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'Aging is Scary and Life is a Struggle!'

What keeps *you* going?

Heather Havrilesky
Oct 27, 2021
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Winter Cottonwoods East V (1954) by Georgia O’Keeffe

I woke up this morning thinking about the phrase “twinklings and twinges” from a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, then I remembered this column, which originally ran on The Cut in September 2014. There are lots of ideas packed into this one, and many of them feel especially relevant to me this year, having moved…

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