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“What is it with humans, anyway? Fish never swell with age, and seagulls don’t get pudgy. They flare with timeworn grace and settle on the sand, then strut around the more bizarre species, Homo sapiens. Maybe terns notice when one of their kind grows stiff, when it can no longer scoot across the sand and lift into the air in a tenth of a second. But if there are birds impaired by aging, Ginny has never seen one.”
― John Thorndike, The Passionate Sister