““He scratches his mustache. “Thirty is when you stop producing human growth hormone, you know. And your DNA telomeres start degrading. It’s when the body starts dying.” “Exactly!” Livia says from behind me. “I’m not dying!” I protest for the millionth time in the last two months. “And neither are you, Liv.” “We’re kind of dying, though,” she says. In front of me, Bud nods in agreement. “Take your vitamins,” he adds, with a touch of sternness, “and then you won’t die so fast.” I have something like a Vietnam flashback to all the vitamins Bud’s fed me over the years. And they weren’t the fun Flintstones ones either. “I’ll be sure to do that””
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