Census taker: Your age, please?
Housewife: Well, let me figure it out. I was 18 when I married and husband was 30. He is now 60, or twice as old as he was then, so I am now 36.
인구조사원: 연세가 어떻게 되시죠?
주부: 글쎄요, 계산 좀 해봐야겠군요. 제가 결혼할 때 저는 열여덟, 남편은 서른 살이었거든요. 그런데 지금은 그이가 60살, 즉 결혼 당시 나이의 곱절이 되었으니까 지금 제 나이는 36살이 되는군요.
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