[Mears]

“And don’t get me started about what it’s like here, in the once GREAT US of A! “

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I am a smoker——and well aware that it will take YEARS off of my life——I may not even make it to my 85th birthday next September.

:-)

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[cgbg]

It sounds like you have taken the smoker's vow:

"I _will_ outlive my doctor!" :-)