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hlthe2b

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9. It is demanding for anyone--especially one not physically and mentally fit...

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2026, 09:06 AM

3 hrs ago

He is neither and wasn't so 20 years or more ago...

Aging is a continuum and there would be exceptions on both sides of the "bell-shaped curve," but the point here is that he was neither physically nor mentally fit decades ago and is only worse now with advancing dementia and physical infirmities.

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