Lessons Learned from My 99-Year-Old Grandma About Growing Old

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I consider myself at “half-time” of my life, I’m currently 43 years “young” and somehow secretly hope it might only be the first third that I’ve experienced so far though.

However, the “half-time” wake-up call is a strong one. It’s now soon eight years ago since I turned 36 and my then 72-year-old dad called me to congratulate me on my birthday. It was of the…