As I brush my teeth in the morning light, staring for too long into the mirror, "How can I be this old?" runs in a loop across my mind.
Then, on FaceTime while chatting with my parents, I see them as if for the first time, their deep-set wrinkles, thinning hair and advanced age suddenly palpable and worrying.
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