Judges and Judiciary
Oct. 28, 2002
Staying Power
In less than three months, I will be slipping another card into my wallet. The card is thin and barely registers on a postal scale, yet it weighs a ton. It is - the words catch in my throat - a Medicare card. It is hard enough carrying an AARP card in your wallet.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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In less than three months, I will be slipping another card into my wallet. The card is thin and barely registers on a postal scale, yet it weighs a ton. It is - the words catch in my throat - a Medicare card. It is hard enough carrying an AARP card in your wallet. This new card implacably declares your 61/2 decades on earth and puts you in a class statistically marked for oblivion sooner than others. It is a heavy load to...
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