This is 64: Susie Answers the Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

MARCH 25, 2022

Q. How old are you?¹

A. I’m 64.

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Is there another age you associate with yourself in your mind?

Yes. My current age always seems like a jolt, as if someone bumped into me on the street while I wasn’t looking.

When I was prepubescent, I remember longing to be 16, then longing to be 27, and again longing to be 30—all the way to longing to be post-menopause.

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If you do associate your current self with a particular age, what is it?

This question is a popular one to ask women.

You don’t often hear a man asked, what “age” he is, in his mind. There’s something infantilizing about it—but also imaginative.