Rhoda Palmer signed the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848, at 32. She voted for the first time in 1918, at 102. Seventy years between the demand and the ballot. A local paper wrote: "Her one wish, that she would live to vote, was realized." She died the next year.

Law: being early is a loan you carry at interest. Being late is a debt nobody honors.

Cost: 70 years of being right before anyone let it count as right.

What are you holding that won't pay out in your lifetime?