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I've met a couple of people who lived to be more than a hundred years old. One of them was a lady, whose family were West coast of Scotland fishermen. She lived with her 75-year-old daughter, who treated her mother like a queen. Everyone in the village was in awe of her, and young children from the local school constantly came to talk to her about what life was like a century ago.
Most of the conversations that she had were all about the past, but one day, whilst making a pastoral call, I asked her what a person of her age and long years of experience looked forward to, after all she had seen and done everything as far as everyone else was concerned.
She simply replied, "Next year's daffodils." Even at the grand old age of 102, she still kept hope alive in her heart. Now that's how to handle aging!
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