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the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

Gladys Taber

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Gladys Taber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 11
Author
Writer
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Gladys Bagg Taber
Things
Move
Meadows
Time
Steps
Climb
Longer
Climbs
Levels
Aging
Days
Older
Growing
Importance
Jagged
Moving
Evidence
Meadow
Real
Level
Peaks

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