They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty,” they'd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred. (Melina Marchetta)

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty,” they'd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred.

Melina Marchetta

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