“I Loathed Being Sixty-four, And I Will Hate Being Sixty-five. I Don't Let On About Such Things In Person; In Person, I Am Cheerful And Pollyannaish. But The Honest Truth Is That It's Sad To Be Over Sixty. The Long Shadows Are Everywhere-friends Dying And Battling Illness. A Miasma Of Melancholy Hangs There, Forcing You To Deal With The Fact That Your Life, However Happy And Successful, Has Been Full Of Disappointments And Mistakes, Little Ones And Big Ones. There Are Dreams That Are Never Quite Going To Come True, Ambitions That Will Never Quite Be Realized. There Are, In Short, Regrets. Edith Piaf Was Famous For Singing A Song Called "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien." It's A Good Song. I Know What She Meant. I Can Get Into It; I Can Make A Case That I Regret Nothing. After All, Most Of My Mistakes Turned Out To Be Things I Survived, Or Turned Into Funny Stories, Or, On Occasion, Even Made Money From. But”
— Nora Ephron —
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