She considered seventy-six. It…made no sense. Except that sometime in the past three years, she had switched from counting her years not up from birt… - Lois McMaster Bujold

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She considered seventy-six. It…made no sense. Except that sometime in the past three years, she had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death—a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.