AJ squinted and pretended to be examining her for proof of age. "Yeah, alright, I suppose I'll buy it. But you can never tell, with girls and their anti-aging charms." There, he'd hoped he'd successfully suggested she certainly didn't actually look twenty-nine.
He sipped his beer and turned contemplative. "Twenty-one... That was an interesting year. Came back to Wales, started training..." Had his heart crushed a bit, which precipitated the other actions he'd mentioned, but he didn't want to bring down the party with any reminisces about that particular part of being twenty-one. "What about you, planning on any major life changes this year?"