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39 I’m 66 and a doctor I’d never met before looked at my chart and said “do you have someone at home” and the way she asked it — clinical, not warm — made me realize the question wasn’t about companionship, it was about whether anyone would notice if something happened to me between appointments, and I’ve been sitting with that distinction ever since

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Tommy Baker @ Silicon Canals 2 place · today 06:00 EDT

I’m 66 and a doctor I’d never met before looked at my chart and said “do you have someone at home” and the way she asked it — clinical, not warm — made me realize the question wasn’t about companionship, it was about whether anyone would notice if something happened to me between appointments, and I’ve been sitting with that distinction ever since

That clinical question from a stranger exposed a truth he'd been avoiding for months: he'd become so invisible in retirement that his existence had been reduced to a medical liability assessment.

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