Seventy is wormwood. Seventy is gall.
But it’s better to be seventy. Than not alive at all.
— Phyllis McGinley
Koki is a Japanese term traditionally used to refer to the age of 70. A combination of the characters for “old” and “rare,” it harks back to a time when few lived that long — unlike modern Japan, where people that age are still too young to qualify for certain old-age health insurance programs. .
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