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  "thread": {
    "id": 3154,
    "subject": "early-40s?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-04-16T04:39:13+00:00",
    "last": "2002-04-16T04:39:13+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0204-620@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maa32",
        "address": "maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu"
      },
      "date": "2002-04-16T04:39:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) early-40s?",
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          "text": "So sorry about the geritol comment - Silk just comes off in the last two books \nas a little bit older than I know he is - mainly that advice he gives those \nyoung girls - it seems like it is coming from a much (65+)older man than \nsomeone in their early forties. Does this mean Horn is in his late 30s?! And \nalready balding?\nHas it only been twenty years since The Book of the Long Sun by the end of \nReturn to the Whorl?!  I guess I forgot how young Horn was when he had \nchildren ... Silk was 23 (exactly my age) in The Book of the Long Sun ... so \nhe's only 43? Younger than Jackie Chan?  I am well aware that someone can be \nexceptionally fit well into their fifties, sixties, or even seventies ... look \nat Jhoon Rhee, who won that congressional award for being the most fit old \ndude a couple years in a row, doing 100+ pushups in a minute and having like a \n7-9% body fat in his 70s.  I guess Silk really does seem exceptionally \npaternal and it is hard for me to rationalize an early 40s Silk. (My own \nfather is 62, and I can't imagine him giving that kind of advice to me - in \nmany ways he seems \"younger\" than Silk) As far as geritol goes, hey man, \nsupplements are all the rage now. Sorry about the geritol comment, didn't mean \nto offend.  It just kind of slipped out!\n\nAs far as smoking goes in Pandora, when I talked about her mother confronting \nher, that was the one scene of smoking I was talking about - but it comes as a \nsurprise, because she doesn't talk about doing it at all throughout the book, \nand here her mother is hinting that it might be a habit. Just an odd omission \nup to that point, in my mind.\n\nSorry again, didn't mean to be caustic.  Just a description!  I guess I never \nrealized how young Silk was - or how young Hyacinth was when she died.\n\nMarc Aramini"
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