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I rarely use my old Gmail account, now when I try to log in they ask me to get into a logged session of Google to verify it's me, as I have no session open with my Google account, I can't do it. It's been a time I wasn't able to log in back to Google without an error message "Google can not verify it is me who is trying to log in"... I don't know how to log in, I have the emails re-directed to my new email provider and I still get emails, one of the emails I got is that if I don't log in the next 2 years, my account will be deleted, so looks like I lost this account with all the data of when I was younger, it's sad, but I don't really need google. This could be an example of "account closed", as I have no open sessions to verify myself and Google should know it.