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On Living: The things we would tell our younger selves

“Life happens so fast.”

Those were the words my 88-year old grandma said in her broken French accent. She rested on a faded blue couch in her living room. A stream of gold morning light was coming in through the cracks of the long vertical blinds over the back window. She wore a pale lavender nightgown and wedged platform sandals instead of slippers. She…