It goes without saying that our society is obsessed with youth. As a person who feels 16-24 internally, but is pushing half a century externally, this is constantly drilled into my head.

When I was young, maybe 8 or 9 years old, I would spend parts of my summer staying with my grandma and my uncle who lived with her. My uncle’s first wife had left him some years earlier and he had moved back in with his mother in his 30s.