If you’re reading this, you’re alive, which is the most amazing and improbable thing to ever happen.

You’re a conflux of thousands of events, a far statistical outlier, more completely unique than any star.

It’s a damn shame you, like me, will die, but we will.

Let me hold out my hand to you in this book so that we can ramble down the crazy path called aging together. None of us is ever alone.

None of us gets out of this life alive. Let’s ponder and laugh a little together.

GL