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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

I'm a cat person.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.