Suddenly, said Becker last week, he's feeling 18 years old and anxious to trade in the introspection for two weeks of invincibility.

God, but she felt five hundred years old herself, in pain from head to toe from a heartache she knew would never heal.

How many years he had felt hunger and yet never experienced this holy yearning for bread!

Gaby remarked at the end of it that she no longer felt eighty years old.

He decided that as long as he was happy and doing his job, it didn't matter whether he felt five years old or fortyfive.

As time passed, towns in the Sunni regions began to feel more and more recognizable to reporters like me who had spent years in Arab places.

She felt eighty years old, worn out and weary and longing to die.

He felt ten years younger-no, twenty.

He said he now feels "between 40 and 42 years old in all aspects of my life."

I feel about 30 years behind the curve.