June 5th 2008 / If we run in the London marathon, no one notices.We've been supplanted by the 80- and 90-year-olds, who grab all the attention. Young people find the really old curious and rather interesting. They help them unload their shopping, listen to what they say. As Alan Bennett said in his diary, you have only to eat a soft boiled egg when you're really old for everyone to say how wonderful you are. // taken from BRIGHT OLD THINGS | More Intelligent Life
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