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“It’s something that happens as we mature, Julie. The older we get, the more fallible we become. We know less compared to how much there is to know, but more about what’s important and what we need to know.

“How you learn to deal with this reality determines how well you get the things that go on all around you all the time.”

What does that mean? she wondered as she walked down the cold and windy canyon-like streets of the best city in America. I thought you were supposed to get smarter and better the older you got.

What Dr. R said sounded like just the opposite.

Now I really don’t get it—even more.

Or is that less?

I guess ...

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