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left-of-center2012
Nov 2019
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Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)1. He can count on around three per week
for the next eight years or so. They're relentless.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)3. I've been a member for 17 years
Saved a lot of money on insurance, phone service, etc.
Costs me a little over $1 per month.
JDC
(10,520 posts)2. So on point. I got mine exactly on my 50th BDay
It was like a punch in the gut...
dflprincess
(28,526 posts)4. The AARP letter is bad enougn, wait 'til the Medicare card arrives
When I opend the mailbox and found mine all I could think of was 45 years earlier when I was taking the bus to & from the U and the "little old ladies" would climb on waving their Medicare cards because seniors got free rides between 9 and 3.
"This isn't happening!", I screamed.