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"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up
enthusiasm wrinkles the soul" - Sam Ullman
BY MOLLY WATTS

I

f you are like most people
our age, you have a certain amount of fear and
worry when it comes to aging.
You've noticed changes in yourself-a dependence on reading
glasses, a changing waistline,
maybe some moments of forgetfulness? And it's hard not
to get a little anxious when you
look ahead ten, fifteen, twenty
years. I understand! I watched
as my parents grew older and
took two very different paths
towards aging. My mother
battled depression, arthritis
and alcohol abuse and watching her was sad, painful and
downright scary. She lived until
eighty, but really spent the last
twenty years of her life in steady decline. In

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"As I started my own 'aging'
journey, I realized pretty
quickly that I wanted to avoid
aging like my mother and
achieve aging like my dad."

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years of my dad's life.
I then began talking to
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ized pretty quickly that I wanted to avoid aging there? Learn more on our podcast : "Live
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