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The speaker says it ends at twenty and that eighteen was enough.

The four lines set two ages beside each other without explaining what ended or why those years were enough.

Four short handwritten lines: 'Now it ends / at twenty, / eighteen was / enough'.

The note sets two ages against each other without naming what ends, so it reads like an epitaph or a closing line for a chapter of life. Its bareness and the flat 'enough' give it a weary finality.