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110 MILESTONES IN A FUTURE LIFE
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Richard Kostelanetz

0 birth 1 teeth 2 walk 3 talk 4 read 5 school 6 toys 7 television 8 games 9 swimming 10 hobbies 11 books 12 baseball 13 football 14 friends 15 girls 16 smoking 17 sex 18 college 19 fraternizing 20 copulation 21 study 22 commencement 23 military 24 marriage 25 job 26 daughter 27 promotion 28 son 29 responsibility 30 exhaustion 31 new job 32 failure 33 unemployment 34 divorce 35 indolence 36 loneliness 37 remarriage 38 extravagance 39 indebtedness 40 raise 41 daughter 42 perseverance 43 executive director 44 speculations 45 new house 46 cadillac 47 son 48 country cottage 49 over-extensions 50 collapse 51 separation 52 psychoanalysis 53 reconciliation 54 grandchild 55 prosperity 56 drinking 57 exercise 58 remarriage 59 new house 60 another child 61 re-education 62 another job 63 reassessments 64 babysitting 65 speculations 66 resignation 67 infidelity 68 class reunion 69 depression 70 twins 71 renovations 72 greater responsibilities 73 vice-presidency 74 financial success 75 reassignment 76 divorce 77 corporate takeover 78 great-grandchild 79 surgery 80 rehabilitation 81 retirement 82 directorships 83 domestic pleasures 84 new teeth 85 cataracts 86 security 87 laziness 88 drinking 89 abstinence 90 consultations 91 memories 92 love 93 curable illness 94 cohabitation 95 recreation 96 pornography 96 apparent rejuvenation 97 leisure 98 medical-testing 99 religion 100 autobiography 101 television 102 weakness 103 great-great-grandchild 104 hospitalization 105 drug-testing 106 senility 107 another marriage 108 incontinence 109 blindness 110 death.

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