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Stephen Harrigan Still Feels 32
Suzy Weiss
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The 76-year-old Texas author discusses his essay for our ‘Ancient Wisdom’ series. Plus: acceptance, ambition, how for older men ‘urology is the midwife of humility,’ and much more.

Read Stephen’s essay, “The Tao of Geezerhood,” and Joe Nocera’s introduction to Ancient Wisdom, a new series from The Free Press.

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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