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    Mid-Life-What?

    May 18, 2021 4 minutes
    ILLUSTRATION BY Daniel Mitchell

    HOW DID YOUR mid-life crisis arrive? An affair with the milkman? A Lamborghini? A three-week bender in Las Vegas? I haven’t done any of these things—although I’ve only just turned 40, so who knows, perhaps they’re yet to come.

    I didn’t think I was bothered about looking youthful, or ticking off my bucket-list, or sowing my wild euphemisms. As a kid, I actively wanted to be middle-aged: the diary I kept when I was 13 records my school computer password as "I6Want7To8Grow6Up." Indeed, I remember aspiring to be 40: it seemed the perfect age to

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