[Magdalen] Down and Up We Go.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

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On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, well the shrinking is quite another matter! I was always a towering
> 5' 2-1/2", but now I'm only 5'- 1/2". OTOH, my mother had lost 4" by the
> time she was my age, due to degenerative disk disease and severe
> osteoporosis. I have the DDD, but not osteoporosis.
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I was 6'3" and am now 6'1" due to the longterm effects of osteoporosis (I
now have osteopaenia).

I was walking past a glass window in a door and for an instant wondered who
this guy who looked so much like my grandfather was, and where he had come
from, then realized it was a reflection of me.  Scary.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

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just undertall!
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> > On Jan 5, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> > It's not only the voice that drops as we age.  We shrink.  I used  to be
> > 6'2", and now find myself at 5'11".
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> > David Strang - Shrinking as I write.
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