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Janet Gibson Uffinger, Editor of NEXT!

You know you’re getting older when ...

• You can vividly remember life before all of the following: computers and the Internet, cell phones, push-button phones, fax machines and color televisions.
• When actress Sally Field comes on TV and announces that she has osteoporosis, you respond, “I remember when she was a teenager!”
• The guys in the Flomax commercial actually look pretty cute.
• You’ll never get used to belly-button piercings.
• You and your friends talk a lot more about God, religion and spirituality.
• You’re excited about downsizing and “simplifying” your life.
• You can’t remember why you walked into a room and what you were hoping to retrieve.
• You get positively giddy when the mailman delivers the latest issue of AARP The Magazine.
• You recall when “penny” candy really cost a penny, and not a quarter.
• You still love listening to disco tunes (and the Rolling Stones, too).
• You can remember when girls weren’t allowed to wear pants to school.
• You’re starting to believe that Botox is a beautiful thing.
• The older you get, the faster time flies.
• Even though you’re “only” 47, you write goofy columns like this one — and wonder how other people feel about getting “older and wiser.”

We’d love to hear your thoughts. E-mail: gibsonj@fayettevillenc.com.
Until next month ...

Just say ‘NEXT!’

There’s a good chance that you’re reading NEXT! for the first time. Why? With this issue, we’ve nearly doubled our circulation, from 25,000 to 47,600.

How? NEXT! previously was distributed to seven-day subscribers of The Fayetteville Observer in Cumberland and Moore counties — over the age of 50, that is.

Because of demand, the magazine is now going to ALL subscribers in the two counties, and it’s moved from the last Monday of the month to the last Sunday.

A large number of copies will continue to be available FREE at 175 rack locations in both counties.

If you’ve missed an issue, just log on to next-magazine.com. Click on PREVIOUS ISSUES, and it’ll take you all the way back to our first NEXT! in December 2003.

Even if you’re not a baby boomer or senior — our target market — we hope you enjoy the stories that reinforce our message of “living longer, living better.”

If you know someone else who would enjoy this publication, pass it on! Indeed, take a cue from the magazine’s title and ...
Just say “NEXT!”