Age 4 – fruit-scented bath products aren’t fruit-flavoured.
Age 6 – bees aren’t friendly and don’t appreciate being handled.
Age 9 – you will never fly unpowered.
Age 15 – your parents aren’t the omniscient infallables you took them to be.
Age 23 – your life partner finds ejaculate disgusting.
Age 28 – your ‘life partner’ isn’t your life partner.
Age 32 – the received wisdom about everyone having at least one book in them is bollocks.
Age 37 – you have trapped yourself in a deskilling, joyless job bereft of satisfaction or opportunities for self actualisation.
Age 47 – you’ll never have a life partner.
Age 75 – medical technology never did follow the trajectory suggested by science fiction, and you’re still fucked.
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