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What elderly perspectives reveal about time perception

My 85-year-old neighbor talks about the Depression like it was yesterday and current events like they're happening to someone else and I wonder if that's how wisdom actually works.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Observing how others hold vast stretches of experience offers insight into the long view of human concerns.

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