If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is…

Kurt Vonnegut
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If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.
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