Sally: I'm going to be forty!
Harry: When?
Sally: Someday!
Harry: In eight years!
Sally: But it's there! It's like a big dead end!
I think about this exchange from When Harry Met Sally a lot. I think about it every time I get anxious about turning a certain age, also known as a “scary age”—a term that originated …
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