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WHAT ARE middle-aged millennials?

Middle-aged millennials are the latest hybrid of old and new.

They are a banana-loaf-baking breed of mid-twenties youngsters. They may well be millennial by birth but, after months of monotonous lockdown living, they are proudly embracing their new-found middle-aged nature.

Since first dipping their toes in the soothing waters of

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