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To the Editor:
I, like Anne Karpf, would “run screaming the other way” if “offered the chance to return to my 14-year-old self.” However, what would she do if offered the chance to return to her 29- or 39- or 49-year-old self? I’m 68. I’d jump at the chance. If I could jump.
JOEL R. SOLONCHE Blooming Grove, N.Y., Jan. 4, 2015
Correction: January 13, 2015 
A letter from Baltimore on Monday about aging omitted five words from a sentence by Anne Karpf, the writer of the Sunday Review article that the letter responded to. The sentence, with the omitted words in italics, should have read, “The language used to describe the changing age composition of the population is little short of apocalyptic.”