"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."

Friendship, Dying, Friends, Years

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"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."

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