The Best is Yet to Be

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“But what if I don’t want to live forever?”

Schrader looked at his wife and frowned. Agnes, don’t be so difficult!

Swiveling a little in her chair behind the long wooden desk, Dr. Re-nard replied calmly, “The treatment won’t make you immortal. It makes you much more resistant to infections and life-threatening diseases, but you’ll be just as vulnerable to accidental injuries. And, of course, it makes you younger.”

“Agnes, don’t you want to be twen-ty-five years old again?” Schrader took her wrinkled hand in his. “It’ll be just like when we were first married!”

“But we won t really be younger. We’ll just look that way.” She glanced at the doctor. “This treatment won’t really ‘turn back the clock,’ like she said. We won’t really be newlyweds again, with our whole marriage still in front of us. It’ll just seem that way. We’ll still be in our seventies, retired, with our family already raised and gone! What will we really have to look forward to?”

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