How regression taught me to live a grown-up life. By Dani Blum “You’re going to molt like a baby snake,” one of the doctors said. He was right: I shed fragments of myself all over my studio apartment.

Read more from Slate’s Geezers issue. Aging can be a cruel process. You get liver spots. You slow down. You start hurting everywhere. You take more pills than Janis Joplin in her prime. But it’s not ...