I'll tell you a little secret...

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Have you ever forgotten how old you are? Sometimes I actually forget how old I am. It's true! I've been forgetting my age for years. I geuss I never care too much about that anymore **shrugs shoulders**. But not to wory! I've got a nifty little way of remembering my age after I've forgotten. Check this out. Back in grade school I was a world class prognosticator and gold star arithmetition -- Translation: I was a really good geusser and my teacher always put little gold stars on all my math papers. - Ok, check this out. Back in 2nd or 3rd grade or something the teacher wanted to know how old the class would be in the year 2000. So, I'd just take 2000 and subtract 1966 (my birth year) and come up with the right answer every time: 34, my age in the year 2000. Ya, the teacher was impressed, too. Those numbers 34 and 2000 have been etched into my mind. So, when 2001 arrived that meant I was 35. Well, no, what it really meant was I would turn 35 during the year 2001. But somehow, because of all the etching, I sincerely and wrongly began misstating my age in January, 3 months before my birthday! I had shifted my birthday from March to January without even realizing it. Anyway, I'm 44 years old now, but often I have to stop and 'do the math' to remember how old I am. How about you, do you forget your age?