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Sean South starts now.

Yeah. South starts now. You never know how truly short life is until a 19-year-old girl who is perceptive and sweet and of exceptional intellect, a girl who made the university president's list, stares at you sincerely, with warmth in her eyes, and with all her heart,

calls you an old person.

I'm not old, you almost reply.

But she is 19, and she would not believe you.

Because to this young woman, the definition of ancient is any person old enough to predate the iPhone 3G. Today we went to the Tennessee Aquarium together. The three of us

walked through the exhibit, the 19-year-old, my wife, and my wife's elderly husband, who carried everyone's purses.

And I watched the 19-year-old who was genuinely oppressed by the gargantuanes and

leviathans in the water tanks. We were in a room of glass. 800 species swam over our heads

and another few thousand below us. Kids were running around everywhere, having a good time.

Parents were pushing strollers.

Babies were crying.

It was your typical tourist attraction.

But I was busy watching the 19-year-old.

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