On her 80th birthday,Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Buck was asked if she wished to be young again.She quickly replied,“Wish to be young again?No,for I have learned too much to lose if.I am a far 1 (value)person today than I was 30 years ago,or 20 years ago,or 15,10 or even 5.I have learnt so much 2 I was 70.”