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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Possible dementia.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗
Becoming invisible.
Having regrets and not knowing what to do about them.
I understand that you lose the register of hearing that enables you to hear crickets, and when I can’t hear crickets in the summer I’ll be really sad.
Young, beautiful, deluded.
To everyone I’ve bored.
Like intoxication, sometimes followed by a hangover.
A teacher and a nightclub singer.
When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
Maurice Sendak, Edmund Hillary, Andrew Ridgeley, Kate Humble, Jon Sopel, Nuala McGovern
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