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80 Years of Living Taught Me This About Stories

When you reach your eighties — quite by accident, as I seem to have done — you begin to realise something rather curious. A long life is not just a collection of years. It is a collection of stories. Some are joyful. Some are painful. Some are amusing. And some… remain unexplained. As an octogenarian, I’ve discovered that the older one becomes, the more the past seems to gather weight. Events that once felt ordinary begin to glow with significance. Small family anecdotes turn into legends. And occasionally, a story lingers — not because it was dramatic, but because it refuses to sit comfortably in the tidy drawer marked “reason.”