Robert Roth | The Sun Magazine

Robert Roth

Robert Roth is editor of And Then. He lives in New York City.

— From October 1991
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Notes Of An Unknown Writer

I am now at an age where I have watched people grow old. They look older, maybe more feeble, their bodies thickening, their bones feeling more frail or their bodies a little stooped, their faces worried in a way I have always associated with older people. I see my friends looking more and more like my aunts and uncles did when I was a child. This is the first generation I have seen grow old. And it is a shock.

October 1991
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