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"Do you ever feel sometimes like you&amp;#039;re a collection of body parts? I don&amp;#039;t mean in the way that women are sometimes objectified; I mean in an aging kind of way, where you feel like the sum \u2014 or perhaps division is the better word \u2014 of bodily aches and pains? I do. For years, I&amp;#039;ve watched my parents aging, and though they don&amp;#039;t complain, I know my mother has a very swollen arthritic knee that gives out, my father is in constant shoulder pain, and they have various other ailments that they live with. I&amp;#039;m starting to know exactly how they feel. I have a slightly arthritic right knee, which gets stiff; a rotator cuff injury that hasn&amp;#039;t fully healed, and this weekend, I discovered a bump on the white of my eye. A little googling and self-diagnosis reveals that it&amp;#039;s a pinquecula, which is more common in middle age, and thought to be caused by (in addition to aging) exposure to UV rays and other elements. It doesn&amp;#039;t go away. And it feels like you&amp;#039;ve got a piece of sand in your eye; or at least mine does. Now I live in a sunny climate, where I spend a lot of time wearing sunglasses and a hat, but there were whole periods of my youth where I worked as an outdoor lifeguard \u2013 sans hat, sans sunscreen, sans sunglasses, sans anything but baby oil, and I can&amp;#039;t help wondering if this set the stage for this latest age-related development. Or is this kind of thing just going to become more and more frequent? Sometimes I feel like more than the sum of my parts; and sometimes I just feel the parts. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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