Let's retire 'senior citizen'

From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) | Date: December 26, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

WILLIAM ECENBARGER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
12-26-2004

Let's retire 'senior citizen'
By WILLIAM ECENBARGER
Date: 12-26-2004, Sunday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday

IT'S BEARING DOWN on me at the rate of 3,600 seconds per hour - that most important tear of Americans' calendrical page, that magic moment when my odometer hits 65.

To be sure, it's a non-event, a figment of the imagination, less than a blip in a wink, a snowstorm in a glass paperweight, future schlock, right up there with crystal balls, tea leaves and goat innards as an indication of anything.

But call me old if you ...

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