MY LIFE, AS I KNOW IT, IS OVER. To be clear, I have always considered my life fun, flirty, fast-paced, filled with competitive races, too much partying and drinking, too little sleep, too many babies to raise, too much work to do with no time set aside to do it and hours spent on hair, makeup, wardrobe, shaving this or that, nails polished, facials and all the other trappings of youth.

Carolyn Short isn’t about to slow down in her “elderly season” at age 70. “Never give in to the dragon of doom,” she advises. (Carolyn Short via Bay City News)

But all that’s over — today I’m 70!

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