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For me, I never thought I'd see my 20s. Because growing up, I was a very unhealthy overweight kid and teenager growing up. I had heard of people not making it to their young adult lives because of being plagued by numerous health issues, being overweight one of them.

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I remember being ~17 and talking to a friend of mine about how we both agreed neither one of us would probably reach 25. Luckily we were wrong, but a lot of the people we grew up with unfortunately did end up dying really young.

The only other part Incan remember was her bringing up this one friend of ours in particular she also thought would die young, but only because he was too ridiculous for her to picture as an old man. He was still alive the last time I checked, but I remember her saying she predicted it would be some bizarre way that would end up in the news like 'man bites carrot, carrot bites back.'