During my career as a late-in-life columnist, I have been blessed with the opportunity to chronicle three birthdays ending in zero.

(My so-called "good" cholesterol has not exactly overperformed in helping me reach these milestones. It usually "phones in" its duties, and even then apologizes, "Sorry, driving into a dead zone here" an awful lot of the time.)

It's six years until another "big" birthday, but as a Beatles fan, I have eagerly anticipated writing this essay about the fast-approaching day "when I'm sixty-four."

(And as an Elton John fan, I've eagerly anticipated building up the nerve to tell my wife, "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting the Urge to Go Shoe Shopping." But I digress.)

Paul McCartney composed the melody of the cabaret-style song when he was a mere lad of 14. A decade later, with the assistance of John Lennon, he fine-tuned........

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