I'm 76. I was only 34 when I stayed up all night to watch the Prince of Wales (now HM King Charles III) marry Lady Diana Spencer. When I did the same to watch HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (now HRH William, Prince of Wales) marry Miss Catherine Middleton, I was 64. By the time HM the Queen died I was 75, but I pulled an all-nighter to watch her funeral. I did the same to watch the King's Coronation.
Unfortunately, due to my DSPD (delayed sleep phase disorder), I tend to sleep from 06.00 until 14.00, so if I need to be somewhere before around 12.00 I have to stay up all night to be sure get there. Since the Coronation, I've had two funerals to attend that required an all-nighter. My adopted daughter, Tonya, died in March and my two-year-old grandnephew, Kistan, died on Monday last. They should have both outlived me by many years. People have got to stop dying young!
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