As one of those geezers in his grey, tired, wizened 50s, I'm torn between the cranky get-offa-my-lawn attitude and a patronizing bless-their-little-hearts when I see all these young'uns romping about at meetings nowadays. And the internet is even worse: look, it's a literate 13 year old atheist and a hardnosed 16 year old skeptic!
I'm going to have to combine my views — it gets easier as senility looms — and kick their little hearts around on my lawn, I guess.
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