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I've become unstuck in time

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"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone back through that door to find himself in 1963. He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between."    - Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut   1977 I've been scanning my photos taken over a time span of 50 years. They are not in chronological order so I find I skip through decades with just a mouse click.Since I post some of these on Facebook someone noted that I would be old in one photo and old in the next. Vonnegut had it all figured out: “All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”  ―  Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ,  Slaughterhouse-Five ...