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Old 04-23-15, 05:06 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by vienna View Post
I thought about the whole sequence, watching someone fade and decline, then fade off for good. The clerks comment made me realize: perhaps I have become some other person's "Three Fingers", the old guy they've seen around the neighborhood who is slowly declining and who will someday fade away, leaving behind the question "Whatever happened to that old guy..."...


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This is both poignant and true: why is it we notice ageing the most in those people who are "familiar strangers" to us; familiar faces of long-standing in our home town? And who indeed might be out there watching us in the same way...?
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