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The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
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Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.
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One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.
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I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.
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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
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I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
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I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
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I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
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I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
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As a writer, you should have a sticky soul the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.
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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
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Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
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But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
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Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on.
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You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
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I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
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