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Fields of Mistria

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Elderly is basically like 70-75+. Definitely 80+.

So to reorient ourselves: if your grandma is 80 in 2026 she was was 20 in 1966 (and if she lived in the US) it is ENTIRELY possible she spent some portion of her youth dropping acid, smoking weed, participating in the free love movement, and protesting the Vietnam war. Hippies are old now.

When we imagine the broad perspective and life experiences of old people we have to keep in mind that old people are now baby boomers, the greatest generation is almost entirely gone. I honestly hate the named generation convention where we neatly divide everybody up by what are ultimately pretty arbitrary years, it's all marketing bullshit. HOWEVER it is true that there was a tremendous culture shift in the 20th century, which deeply altered a lot of cultural norms in a fairly short amount of time. Old people now really do have a meaningfully different cultural perspective than old people two decades ago did.

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Mail is no longer automatically postmarked with the date you drop it off. Instead, the postmark now reflects the date it’s first processed by an automated sorting facility — which can be days later.

If you mail something right at a deadline, the official postmark could be later than your drop-off date and may be considered late.

If mailing date matters to you, go inside the post office and request a hand-stamped postmark.