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   Beaver Fever to N Jill Marsh   
   Re: Why Did Ed Asner Look So Old?   
   19 Sep 21 21:21:19   
   
   l-september.org> 04efd7e1   
   From: Beaver_Fever@live.com   
      
   On Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 2:05:34 PM UTC-7, N Jill Marsh wrote:   
   > HVS  wrote:    
   >    
   > > In a similar vein, my wife and I (aged 73 and 69; no children) have    
   > > noticed that those of our friends who have fully embraced the    
   > > traditional roles of grandparents in their 50s or 60s -- looking    
   > > after the grandkids, playing the "really-really-old" role with the    
   > > grandkids -- seem to have aged differently than friends without kids    
   > > or grandchildren.   
   > This is a bit of a family joke. I have relatives (both dead now, lived well    
   > into their nineties) who were identical twins. They married sisters, who    
   > were not identical but very similar. The two couples lived together, from    
   > when they were married until they died.    
   >    
   > By the time I arrived, there was not a problem telling them apart. One set    
   > looked markedly older than the other set. Only one couple had kids…    
   >    
   >    
   > --    
   > njm   
      
      
   I can tell Kim & Kelley Deal apart   
      
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