When you're retired, you get into your routines and other p… - John Updike

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When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.

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John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer.

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