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Retirement Strategies and Avocations
Second cousin Georgette Tenley also
provides this transitional ditty:
Today, Dear Lord, I'm 80 and
There's much I haven't done.
I hope, Dear Lord, you'll let me live
until I'm 81.
But then, if I haven't finished
all I want to do
--
Would you let me stay awhile
-–
until I'm 82?
So many places I want to go,
so very much to see
--
Do you think that you could manage
to make it 83?
The world is changing very fast
There is so much in store.
I'd like it very much to live
until I'm 84.
And if by then I'm still alive
I'd like to stay 'till
85.
More planes will be up in the air,
so I'd really like to stick--
And see what happens to the world
when I'm 86.
I know, Dear Lord, it's much to ask
.
(and it must be nice in heaven)
But I would really like to stay
until I'm
87.
I know by then I won't be fast
and sometimes will be late;
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