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mak3cats

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3. I'll field this one....

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 11:02 PM

Mar 2015

I comforted myself as a chubby teenager thinking that when we were old, all the really pretty girls would be not so pretty anymore, but I would still be smart. Guess what? that actually happened. I'm over 50 and feel more comfortable in my skin than I've ever been.

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U 40 yrs ago were "hot". Now I know "Meh". Anyone?!1 n/t [View all] UTUSN Mar 2015 OP

Huh?!1 n/t UTUSN Mar 2015 #1

I Just Don't Look Good Naked Anymore Ptah Mar 2015 #2

I'll field this one.... mak3cats Mar 2015 #3

Yes, 40 years ago I was "hot". RebelOne Mar 2015 #4

40 years ago I wasn't old enough to be hot taterguy Mar 2015 #5

The recursive scorching reflection seveneyes Mar 2015 #19

Depends on who is judging me LynneSin Mar 2015 #6

Nope Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #7

40 years ago I was nonexistent. IrishEyes Mar 2015 #8

40 years ago NewJeffCT Mar 2015 #9

well, you can no longer bounce a quarter off my ass Skittles Mar 2015 #10

We're playing quarters at Skittles house tonight. KMOD Mar 2015 #11

wine ? jakeXT Mar 2015 #12

If they ever make a movie of my book...... DFW Mar 2015 #14

Inspiring the next generation of physicists ? jakeXT Mar 2015 #26

Of course, he's been at this longer than my book has been out DFW Mar 2015 #27

40 years ago my testicles hung evenly. Kaleva Mar 2015 #13

I was NEVER "hot." However...... DFW Mar 2015 #15

That would be me. 40 years ago I was 26. In_The_Wind Mar 2015 #16

40 years ago I was a child Quantess Mar 2015 #17

Reaching for the sky just to surrender seveneyes Mar 2015 #18

40 years ago I was just a little Squirt NightWatcher Mar 2015 #20

Me to the proverbial "T"! 25 then; 65 now. Was "The Sh*t"; now, "Look like sh*t"! WinkyDink Mar 2015 #21

Oddly, I'm better looking now than when when I was a teenager, and I still look very much the same underahedgerow Mar 2015 #22

Have either you, or your ex bf, had children? n/t DebJ Mar 2015 #23

I have, he hasn't. My offspring turns 22 next month. I had her as a single mum from the get underahedgerow Mar 2015 #24

I may have looked cool 40 years ago olddots Mar 2015 #25