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Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Donald Justice

1967

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Middle age The road not taken Shrinking horizons Aging

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

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1967

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Donald Justice

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Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty." Night Light. Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

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Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. — Donald Justice

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