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flamingdem

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5. some are heartbreaking!

Reply to grasswire (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 12:59 AM

Feb 2014

such as the person who describes feeling humiliated after hitting 50, knowing things won't get better, the lack of mobility has always been big there.. they have less room to move literally.. but the 1% has been at it longer too.

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some are heartbreaking! flamingdem Feb 2014 #5

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