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Submitted to Contest #197
Mac had worked out he had been born old at a fairly young age because he had always had an old man's point of view. Now he was retired and had accumulated enough health problems to reasonably assume he was close to the end of the journey. He spends much of his time pondering the meaning of it all. Had he learned what he'd been sent here to learn? With age comes perspective was one of the first gems he had picked up on. Before he was thirty Mac had observed that what was important to you at twenty would seem laughable at forty and...
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