There have been other milestones.
Tho police officers of my youth always seemed big, even huge, and of course they were older than I was.
Then one day they were suddenly neither.
In fact, some were kids ― short kids at that.
The day came when I suddenly realized that all the football players in the game I was watching were younger thanI was. They were just big kids. With that milestone went the fantasy that someday, maybe, I too could be a football player.