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People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
Economist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
People
Seventy
Aged
Seventies
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