Bits of me are falling apart : dark thoughts from the middle years
Not everybody becomes middle aged - some, like James Dean, remain forever young. For others, it happens early - Paul Gascoigne experienced his mid-life crisis at the age of twenty-seven. For William Leith, middle age hits one swelteringly hot day in the summer of 2004, when he finds himself trying to change an enormous bag of pennies at the post office to get the cash for his next meal.When he is refused, realises that he is quite simply too old...
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