Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2011/01/29/as-i-turn-sixty-five/
"I began teaching, at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, in 1969. I was
twenty-three years old. Like all new employees, I had to fill out employment
forms. One of them concerned my pension. I had to mark my expected retirement
date. Everyone then considered sixty-five to be the normal retirement age, so I
added sixty-five to my birth year of 1946 and wrote down 2011.
Over the years since then, I sometimes thought of that form and the year 2011.
It always seemed so far away, and I always seemed so young. When I got married
in 1977, I was only thirty-one and 2011 was thirty-four years in the future. I
got divorced in 1986, and 2011 was still a distant twenty-five years ahead.
When I moved to Pittsburgh with Karen and the kids in 1988, I was forty-one,
but a new life, with a family in a big city, made me feel younger, and the joys
and sorrows of watching the children grow up made me forget 2011 altogether. .
. ."
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