A horrible thing happened to me yesterday. I was having to fill out a form on the Internet, and I came to the age bracket; rather than simply entering my age it had categories, and for the first time, I found myself in the 35 to 44 category. Not fun.
It’s terrible moving up an age category.
11 October 2007
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