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The realization that one is growing older comes to most of us, if we're lucky, in bearable increments; that way, the full cargo of mortality doesn't sink the boat, so to speak, but is brought on board in the form of manageable hand luggage. One year you develop an almost erotic fondness for the warmth of a hot water bottle tucked between cold sheets; next, you and your friends develop an entire dinner conversation to the benefits of dietary fiber and, less appetisingly, its effects.

~ Bernard Cooper, "The Bill from My Father"