<p>Three lifetimes. Laid end to end.</p><p>Not so very long, in those terms. Between Saturday, July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, and the event being celebrated.</p><p>Take an 83-year-old β about the life expectancy of an American woman β and go back to her birth, 1943, the middle of a global war against fascism, aptly enough.</p><p>Tag another 83-year old.