Fear of forty!

By the time you read this (I have always wanted to start a story that way) I will be on a mountaintop in an undisclosed location far, far away.

I will be taking time out on a private and solitary retreat to ponder the last 40 years of my life, and hopefully during that time, I will gain some useful insights about how I would like the next 40 years to go. Yes, I am ignoring the average life expectancy figures in Zimbabwe!

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