Norman Learfeels like a kid again at 101.

Norman Lear here, dribbling a bit because hes entering his second childhood, he said with a laugh.

I have just turned 101, and that is, they tell me, my second childhood.

Norman Lear Turns 101

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It feels like that, in terms of the care I am getting.

I get the kind of care at this age that I see children getting.

That hammock between over and next.

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I am living in that moment now, with all of you, he said.

Bless all of you, and our America.

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I wrote in the very first year of television, when writers were revered.

I now watch talented writers struggle to earn a living wage without the path to a career like mine.

That is something to be protected and cherished, he wrote.

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