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I’m sure having my photo shared in this derogatory way would be devastating if my motivation for getting a PhD was to impress this guy and women-hating friends.
Thankfully, it was not. So I can just laugh about it instead. 😊
Ageing is case of mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it don’t matter. Also turning #67 this yr, Madonna, Kate Bush, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandi Toksvig, Anneka Rice, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Joan Jett, Holly Hunter, Annette Benning, Miranda Richardson, Jennifer Saunders etc
These are Star Stones, fossilized remains of marine animals related to starfish and sea urchins. Many are over 300 million years old.
They were once known as Fairy Coins.
You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.
For the next phase of literary development I suggest eccentric, cryptic, suggestive, uneven, wild, funny, confusing work that will defy interpretation by AIs and manifestly be the product of crazy old human beings.
I could not be more serious.