Great Regulars: At any rate, one day, it's as if

you were back where you started: Everybody else goes to school or to work, but not you. There is one big difference: The future has become a distinctly indeterminate quantity, and now, when you look around, what you see isn't anything to look forward to because, as the saying goes, you've been there and done that.

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: The most disconcerting thing about growing old

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