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Pot Smoking, Beer Drinking Punk Gets Old

By Henry Schulte

Feb 26, 2026
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I am now a senior citizen.

Have been for quite a while.

Three giveaways: my hair is as white as snow; I really enjoy reading my AARP magazine; I eat dinner at four.

I feel fortunate to have lived 72 years and honestly, I’m quite surprised that I have. As a teenager I was a pot smoking, beer drinking, surf punk. I got married two weeks past my teens. I was …

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