Andy P. quoted Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga, #18)
Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, spins her …
At some time in the past three years she had switched from counting her years not up from birth but back from death.
— Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga, #18)
Being called out in my old age, I started doing this too after I turned 50.