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I am going to read more and more of your essays and contemplate them and learn to pray in one way or another. I hope that one day I can meet you in person, too. I’m 66 and feel as though I’m just getting started. Tabula rasa.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 so you have the best centuries ahead of you.

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Haha! Thank you, that’s kind of how I like to think of it, too.

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In 2005 a friend of mine, Aubrey de Grey, spoke at a gathering of freedom enthusiasts in Colorado. He said that the first person who would live to be a thousand years old had already been born. In happier times, I donated some funds to his foundation, which he named after Methuselah.

Let's add that to the list, very long lives. While we are designing the future we want for ourselves and our posterity.

I have a cousin born in 1916 whose soul passed away in 2016. He made it a little past the century mark. You may have seen him in the film "Sleepless in Seattle." He played the dad at the holiday supper table in one of the early scenes. Kevin O'Morrison.

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That’s cool. I never saw the movie. It’s nice to know there were, and likely still are, good people in filmdom. Must have been an amazing 100 years. My father was born in 1913 and passed a long time ago now.

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