"I'm 63 and I'm Tired" By Robert A. Hall

This should be required reading for every man, woman and child in the United States of America and Canada.

"I'm 63 and I'm Tired"
By Robert A. Hall

I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.

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Оказывается у новорожденных львят тоже хвостики морковкой, как у котиков :)



Сказочные фото photographer Michel Denis-Huot 

Это мне сегодня байку в фотографиях прислали, про диких котиков и я пошла искать, чьи же это фото...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246886/Pictured-Three-cheetahs-spare-tiny-antelopes-life--play-instead.html

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