<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432327" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>~62~</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As my 62nd birthday approaches...<br>I will again be celebrating my 31st.<br>With familiar gratitude.<br>And with God's hopeful blessing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You'll be 62! <br>Not 31.<br>Get real! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I look at it this way...<br>When I arrived at 60? <br>I felt as if I had won a championship.<br>With some wonderful memories.<br>And being with both my parents...<br>When their separate deaths approached.<br>And thinking of them as if they were my children, <br>I had to protect.<br>To hear them say I love you...<br>And other things they to me confessed, <br>Was a divine time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't get me wrong...<br>I'm not wishing to stop time, <br>Or wish to travel back into it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cried like a baby when I turned 31.<br>Call me what you wish.<br>But I had done my patriotic thing.<br>And I was in and out of the military, <br>Ten years 'prior' before I did this.<br>Married, divorced AND experienced with a profession.<br>And unafraid to ask or answer any question.<br>Yet...<br>31 felt as if I had lived a lifetime.<br>Until I became 61 and felt younger.<br>How? <br>Hey...<br>It was my first time at it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However...<br>31 was my turning point.<br>That's why I celebrate it.<br>And with God's blessing...<br>It will be my 31st anniversary of finding myself.<br>And having the peace of mind at 62...<br>To say and do as I please.<br>Within reason.<br>And with God's approval! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Plus...<br>I can say I've earned the right to be 62.<br>And 'any' and every age below it! <br>How about you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432327" data-title="~62~ de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="As my 62nd birthday approaches... I will again be celebrating my 31st. With familiar gratitude. And with God's hopeful blessing. 'You'll be 62! Not 31. Get real! ' I look at it this way... When I arrived at 60? I felt as if I had won a champio..."></div> </div> </div>

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