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Toby Young: Am I in denial about turning 50?

I could be dealing with my decay and depression by focussing on my children

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

By the time you read this I’ll be 50. A couple of years ago, when President Obama passed this milestone, I wrote a piece for the Telegraph about how much I was dreading it. But now it’s finally happening, I can’t think what all the fuss was about. Turns out it’s a bit like being mugged: more terrifying in the imagination than reality.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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