Youth

Listening to the radio, they were telling the story of Simone de
Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre. Simone de Beauvoir is having an affair
with one of her young students - at the "ripe old age of thirty, she
felt like she had recaptured her longlost youth."



I nearly fell off my chair. "Longlost?" At thirty? The
hell with that. They can have my youth when they pry it from my cold,
dead fingers.