She considered seventy-six. It...made no sense. Except that sometime in the past three years, she had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death-a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

She considered seventy-six. It...made no sense. Except that sometime in the past three years, she had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death-a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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