Martha Moxley Will Always Be 15

America, a young nation that worships youth, now struggles with the aging who can't find work. About 33% of those in America are 50 years of age or older. They're the fastest growing group among the homeless. Part of that is because, as ProPublica documented, once you hit 50:

The odds are you'll be forced out of your job, and

Only one in 10 who lands another job in their field will earn the same money.

In contrast, as the New York Post brings back the infamous 1975 Murder in Greenwich, Connecticut story, the victim Martha Moxley will always be 15 years of age. 

So young, so open a future. 

Given the she was from a privileged family in an old-money WASPY town she would not have to chase a career. But if she did the first few doors would likely have been easy to enter.

No question, blonde and attractive, she would have met a suitable life mate and married in a high-profile wedding as did Ethel Skakel to the dashing Robert F. Kennedy. The photos of that moment at Greenwich's St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in 1950 remain iconic.  

Ethel was related to the man convicted of the killing and who served 11 years in prison. That's Michael Skakel, who is also now old - 65 years as of the past September. The conviction was overturned but the memory of not only the crime and punishment but also of being a least favorite son of an alcoholic remains.

We the oldest of the Boomers were 30 years old when Moxley had been beaten to death with a golf club. So many of us had come of age in the euphoric 1960s. Back then was the saying amid the risks of drugs, too much booze and hedonism: Die young and make a beautiful corpse. 

As we look in the mirror and what we see is the face of our grandmothers/grandfathers we might wonder: Did Moxley get the better deal? The English majors among us often recall that T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

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I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind?   Do I dare to eat a peach?

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That was 1917. 

Even then aging drove human beings inward, locked in self-consciousness. 
Moxley never had to face that transition from looking outward and forward.

Thrown off your game, maybe the first time since you started working? You made all the right moves and then the world moved in another direction.

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