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Some people might look at her strangely when she’s in the tattoo chair — “what’s that old person doing?” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

And yet they just don't have that thing that the old person has, right?

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024

Until that moment I saw myself as coping well with my Parkinson's and definitely not as an old person.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023

This presumes that the only thing that is different between a young person and an old person is their age when, in fact, that’s not quite true.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2023

The room looks like it used to belong to an old person.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness


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