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It was of course that title that got me. Lewis Wolpert (aged 81 as I am) subtitles his book – ‘The Surprising Nature of Getting Old’. So I ordered the book from our library and am now reading it. The author is a developmental biologist and has set himself the aim of explaining ageing, with the help of his own and other specialist studies and statistics. His basic theme is similar to our own in these blogs – identifying and de-mystifying a process that can be a burden to us, but can also generate the fear that what is happening to