I get out my sunglasses and prepare for lens flare.

That looks like a shut up kiss that didn’t work on either of them.

This honestly went the other way around for me. There was a lot of stuff I couldn’t manage as a teenager and in my 20s, and a lot of pain I had that I don’t have anymore. Though I definitely have to do more negotiating with my body about food.

But I started taking estrogen in my early 30s, which seemed to make a big difference.

If it helps, everyone else around our age is also creeping up on 40.

I don’t think we spontaneously turn into our parents or adopt the thinking of their generation.

They’re all transporter clones anyway.