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LOVERRO: Decades without make Opening Day worth savoring

ANALYSIS/OPINION

Scientists have predicted that babies born in the year 2000 and beyond have a better than 50 percent chance of living to be 100 years old.

For children born in Washington then, that is the second-best thing about being growing up here in the 21st century.

The first? A baseball team to call their own.

Those born in and around the District in 2000 have had the pleasure of growing up in a world without the absence of a Washington baseball team. They’ll have memories and stories that their mothers and fathers don’t, moments that are indelible over a lifetime — even one that lasts 100 years.