I write this having just called my mother, who lives in South Africa. This week, she turned 86, a mere 20 years older than I, but she's twice as smart and almost as healthy as I am. Apart from the generic troubling back pain, my mother has no medical ailments, continues to be very active, and is as sharp as a tack. The only tangible change that I can see is that after burying her fourth man, she has decided that she's done with the love department. At her age, she tells me, men are just too m ...

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